Hitler's Beneficiaries - why ordinary Germans supported him

[Laura]

Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 19:15:14 -0500 (EST)
From: IHR News <news@ihr.org>
Hitler's Germany: A Fusion of Ideology and Material Interest Deutsche
Welle (Germany)

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2298234,00.html

In 2005, Götz Aly landed a bestseller with a study of how ordinary
Germans, in addition to bankers and industrialists, benefited under
Nazism. Now his book is available in English as "Hitler's
Beneficiaries." ... Götz Aly: "My book describes one aspect of National
Socialism, namely the state's generous social programs. It tries to
answer the question of why most Germans were basically content under
Hitler. The explanation is quite simple: Hitler pursued a massive
wealth-redistribution program to the benefit of ordinary people... A
great many of today‚s laws [in Gemany] originated in this period,
whether we‚re talking about legislation protecting the rights of workers
and tenants, holiday and overtime pay, or state health insurance for
pensioners." ==

The Nazi Medical Welfare System David Gordon

http://www.lewrockwell.com/gordon/gordon24.html

... Many of the health campaigns we see today have precedents in Nazi
policy. Women over thirty were urged to undergo screenings for cancer,
and advertising campaigns warned against the dangers of tobacco. Just as
today, regulations forbade smoking in certain public places and jobs.
And, just as with us, smoking could not be banned completely: smoking
was too popular, and the tobacco companies were too powerful.

 

[gangstalking]

Did you ever see the article entitled Letters to Hitler?

_http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-10-10-2035555479_x.htm

Here is an excerpt.

BERLIN — At first glance, the letter carefully printed in a child's hand seems innocuous, nothing more than the expression of a young crush: "I love you so much. Write me -- please. Many greetings. Your Gina."
But the note takes on a more sinister tone when its recipient is known: Adolf Hitler.

The 1935 letter is one of 300 in a new book "Briefe An Hitler" -- "Letters to Hitler" -- by German historian Henrik Eberleby. He examined more than 20,000 letters in Russian archives.

The letters give a unique glimpse into the minds of Germans during the Nazi era, from party sycophants and ordinary citizens to political opponents and Jews suffering under the Nazi regime.

Eberle stumbled on the letters when researching an earlier book on Hitler.