we're talking about Versailles again, and the Treaty of Rapallo too
Karl Radek lol
According to a Krupp memo written during the war, “Of the guns which were being used in 1939–1941, the most important were already fully developed in 1933, and many were completed much earlier..."
"The basic principles of armament and turret design for tanks had already been worked out in 1926, and the Krupp factory began manufacturing tanks on a limited scale in 1928"
get this - one week before the Reichstag fire, Hitler called Gustav Krupp, of course, but also 4 directors from IG Farben, Albert Vogler of the United Steel Works, and 20 other executives
but why?
because Göring was telling them:
“We are about to hold the last election,” he began, and paused to let the full implications of that sink in. He continued, saying “Private enterprise cannot be maintained in a democracy”.
Hitler said “Regardless of the outcome” at the polls, there would be “no retreat.” If he lost he would stay in office “by other means… with other weapons.”
they were basically telling them the Reichstag fire was coming
then came the terror elections after the Reichstag fire, which, despite all their trickery, only got them a majority, not the 2/3rds majority needed to formally pass their dictatorship
so what'd they do? basically bribed politicians using the money they got from the aforementioned meeting with industrialists to get past the goalpost
you ever hear about the Adolf Hitler Fund of German Trade and Industry ("Adolf-Hitler-Spende der deutschen Wirtschaft")? it was basically a slush fund big business used to pay off the Nazis for liquidating unions
in 1934, Hitler decreed Gustav Krupp to be the country’s Führer of the economy
now, as we all know, it's instructive to take note of who was where when certain deep events took place, right? like who was in Dallas on 11/22/63, and who was, idk, at Camp Peary at the time, right?
well guess who was at Villa Hügel when the Night of the Long Knives was launched?
that's right, it's Hitler
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ancient Israel was said to use the Urim and the Thummim (meaning uncertain, possibly "Lights and Perfections") which was a breastplate worn by the High Priest along with an ephod
famously, this was one of several methods Joseph Smith used to translate the gold plates into the Book of Mormon, right?
according to Joseph Smith and the LDS church, the angel Moroni took back these artifacts, and most Mormons think that's the end of the story. and it is, in a way. but there's more, too.
Hjalmar Schacht, using financial trickery to keep rearmament off the books
Krupp and the other industrialists were not paid for their weapons in reichsmarks, but in “mefo bills”, which were IOUs from the Metallurgische Forschungsgesellschaft, hence the “mefo”
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I take pride in my posting, I certainly do less of it now that I've got a podcast, but whatever
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