a lot of us probably know that Nazism was an explicit bargain made to keep Germany from going red, but like, did you know Hitler knew it too? and sold it as such to German heavy industry?
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https://twitter.com/p2chillPodcast/status/1414666542822924288
today's episode picks up from the Beerhall Putsch, which completely wrecked the Nazis' finances 
Otto Strasser, of the left wing of the Nazis
Emil Kirdorf, the first German industrialist to directly support the Nazis
Kirdorf supported the Vaterlandspartei during WWI
Hitler's secret pamphlet for industrialists - "the Road to Resurgence"
Hitler at the Düsseldorf Industry Club
Fritz Thyssen, the industrialist, and the man who (as far as is known😎 ) gave the most to Hitler as an individual donor
weird flex, but ok
the Kiel Mutiny of 1918
Emil Eichhorn, whom Fritz Thyssen described as "a dangerous Communist agitator in the service of Soviet Russia", also the Red chief of police in Berlin during the revolution
hotel Krupp, where all the German heavy industrialists met with John Foster Dulles during the Ruhr occupation
Hitler's Brown House Nazi headquarters - funded directly by Fritz Thyssen via a Dutch bank, probably for 1,250,000 Dutch marks
first 3 major funders of the Nazis - Henry Ford, Emil Kirdorf, and Fritz Thyssen - a study in contrasts
check it out!
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