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It might be worth while to consider the story of Fritz Thyssen who was liberated from a German prison by American soldiers at the end of World War II. Who is Fritz Thyssen? Why does his story sound familiar?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Thyssen
In 1923, Thyssen met former General Erich Ludendorff, who advised him to attend a speech given by Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party. Thyssen was impressed by Hitler and his bitter opposition to the Treaty of Versailles, and began to make large donations to the party, including 100,000 gold marks ($25,000) in 1923 to Ludendorff. In this he was unusual among German business leaders, as most were traditional conservatives who regarded the Nazis with suspicion. Postwar investigators found that he had donated 650,000 Reichsmarks to right-wing parties, mostly to the Nazis, although Thyssen himself claimed to have donated 1 million marks to the Nazi Party. Thyssen remained a member of the German National People's Party until 1932, and did not join the Nazi Party until 1933.
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Once the Nazi dictatorship took hold, however, Thyssen began to have second thoughts. Although he welcomed the suppression of the Communist Party, the Social Democrats and the trade unions, he disliked the mob violence of the SA. In 1934 he was one of the business leaders who persuaded Hitler to suppress the SA, leading to the "Night of the Long Knives". Thyssen was horrified, however, at the simultaneous murder of various conservative figures such as Kurt von Schleicher.
Thyssen accepted the exclusion of Jews from German business and professional life by the Nazis, and dismissed his own Jewish employees, but he did not share Hitler's violent anti-Semitism. As a Catholic, he also objected to the increasing repression of the Roman Catholic Church, which gathered pace after 1935: in 1937 he sent a letter to Hitler, protesting the persecution of Christians in Germany The breaking point for Thyssen was the violent pogrom against the Jews in November 1938, known as Kristallnacht, which caused him to resign from the Council of State. By 1939 he was also bitterly criticising the regime's economic policies, which were subordinating everything to rearmament in preparation for war.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)xfundy
(5,105 posts)the cancervatives cleverly put "judeo-" into the phrase they use to describe "real murkkans."
Their plan for the Jews is to move them all back to Israel, where BabyJesus will personally send them to hell once he comes back, and other shit about a red calf (which idiots in the US have tried to make by playing with DNA), a temple, blood on the moon and lots of other lunacy.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,212 posts)I wonder how comfortable he feels around these derps?
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)TomCADem
(17,390 posts)...by a Western Country was by Nazi Germany.