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      German Fuhrer and Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in 1933

      A Lesson for America 90 Years After Hitler's Ascension to Power

      Corporate Germany got what it wanted and the rest of the world had hell to pay.

      Werner Lange
      Jan 20, 2023

      January 30 this year marks the 90th anniversary of the corporate-facilitated appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of a deeply divided Germany. There is an alarming lesson in this disastrous historic development for a deeply divided America today: Cutting deals with fascists to catapult a voraciously power-hungry politician to high national office places a nation in grave peril.

      Right-wing German corporate leaders from the Freundenkreis der Wirtschaft (Club of Friends of the Economy) did just that in 1933 in the wake of national elections which led to the collapse of a conservative government and the rise of communist representation in Parliament. At secret meetings arranged by the influential banker, Kurt von Schröder (now generally recognized as “the midwife of Nazism”), it was eventually agreed after some contentious negotiations that a new government headed by the fascist Hitler was the preferential option of alarmed conservatives and capitalists. As Schröder himself later testified at the Nuremberg trials: “The general desire of businessmen was to see a strong man come to power in Germany who would form a government that would stay in power for a long time.” Corporate Germany got what it wanted and the rest of the world had hell to pay over the following 11 years.

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      The Red Army enters Bucharest in 1944 during War World II

      Remembering Operation Bagration: When the Red Army Decapitated the Nazi Front

      Not only did the Soviet Union bear the most extreme brunt of the horrors of World War II; it also was without question the most central force in the Nazis' defeat.

      Adolph Reed Jr.
      Jun 22, 2022

      Eighty-one years ago, in the early summer of 1941, Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, attacking the Soviet Union along a massive front at the height of World War II.

      Drunk on barely contested victories sweeping eastward through Poland and Czechoslovakia and then westward through France, which seemed to reinforce convictions of Aryan racial superiority, the Nazi war machine rushed toward Moscow, feeding Hitler's hopes to capture the Kremlin by Christmas and rid the world of "the Judaeo-Bolshevik threat" and subordinate or liquidate racially inferior Slavs on the way to replicating--in a radically telescoped way--the U.S. government's "pacification" and re-peopling of the North American continent in the centuries previous.

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      Fascism's Global Spread Is as Real as the Pandemic's

      Fascism's Global Spread Is as Real as the Pandemic's

      In the world's largest democracies, far-right movements that embrace violence, reject democracy, and target the vulnerable are on the rise.

      Walden Bello
      May 07, 2021

      The global spread of fascism is real, as real as the spread of COVID-19, and you better believe it.

      For purposes of academic analysis, it might be legitimate to distinguish between a "fascist-leaning" movement and a truly fascist one, or a far-right regime and fascist regime, or an authoritarian populist and a fascist. But I am a former member of the Philippine parliament and a street activist. While I have great respect for academics, those of us who operate in the realm of practical politics cannot afford to act as academics.

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