(07-01-2016, 07:09 AM)Anthony Wrote:Quote:Oh come on, don't be naive. When a nation turns Nazi, the volk never benefit. The volk are dupes when a Nazi putsch happens.
Oh, really? Who benefited in Germany when full employment was achieved by 1936, and outright labor shortages by 1938?
People got jobs, but they got lower real wages on those jobs. Workers were barred from seeking employment elsewhere without the consent of the employer, and they could no longer strike for higher wages or better working conditions. They also could be compelled to do unpaid overtime, and anyone who balked at the demands of an employer could be shipped off to a labor camp where they got an attitude adjustment while toiling under harsher management and longer hours on even lower rations. The greater amount of work went into preparations for Nazi aggression, and as we all know militarization does not improve living standards. German plutocrats simply got more business and more profit from people working longer and harder under harsher management. That is a raw deal for workers.
Industrial workers in Nazi Germany effectively became serfs. It's telling that the Devil's Reich, even with its labor shortage, could not attract foreign workers until the Nazi occupiers ravaged occupied countries and compelled workers in those countries to choose between working as slaves in Germany or starving where they were.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.