On Dec 14, 2015, at 4:02 PM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
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>> "Germany was prostrate, disarmed, and bankrupt, humiliated by the Versailles Treaty, with its industrial heartland in the Ruhr under military occupation. Hyperinflation was rampant. The capitalist system was tottering, racked by widespread industrial strife and threatened by the rapid growth of a mass communist party.”
>> But that was 1923, and the Ludendorff/Hitler "Beer Hall Putsch" was an abject failure. By 1933 none of that was the case--Germany suffered from much the same depression as, for instance, the USA, and had already been substantially rearmed thanks to the secret clauses of the Rapallo treaty and Stalin's craving for a German alliance against the British and French.
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> Yes. Good point. But there still remained the systemic threat represented by a mass workers’ movement with a strong Communist presence which had to be eliminated.
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