If the New York Times politics newsletter were covering the rise of Hitler
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NEW! Friday's New York Times politics newsletter was a masterpiece of amoral and irresponsible political relativism. It inspired a brilliant parody.
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If the New York Times politics newsletter were covering the rise of Hitler | Press Watch
A recent New York Times daily politics newsletter was a masterpiece of amoral and irresponsible political relativism. It inspired a brilliant parody.
3:56 PM · Mar 5, 2022
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BERLIN Immediately after the U.S. stock market plunged, the political debate in the Reichstag was a free-for-all. The governing Social Democrats and their coalition allies the conservative Peoples Party and the Centre Party aligned behind Chancellor Hermann Müller, exhibiting what was once considered a traditional show of unity in a crisis. But from the left and right, Communist and Nazi lawmakers portrayed Mr. Müller as weak and indecisive. In perhaps the strangest twist, the Nazi leader seemed to exult over the Wall Street crash, saying it foretold the coming collapse of global elites.
Now, Nazi leaders are fine-tuning their message.
The party leader, Adolf Hitler, who represents Upper Bavaria and Schwabia in the Reichstag, will declare Friday that Jews and Bolsheviks are to blame for Americas stock market crash, and Germany must free itself from both, according to excerpts from a speech that the war veteran will deliver at a party retreat today in Munich.
Other Nazis have urged Mr. Hitler to keep his focus on criticism of Mr. Müller, tying the new economic turmoil to longstanding mismanagement of inflation and unemployment.
Twelve Nazi members of the Reichstag all elected last year have hammered the chancellor all week.
We can only protect our economy by rebuilding the German military, Nazi lawmakers from Prussia and Bavaria said in a statement. People in our states cannot afford another bout of inflation, and cannot afford to be held hostage by Jewish bankers in New York and London and Communist agitators in Hamburg and St. Petersburg.
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