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Third Reich
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The Third Reich made it its mission to use the authority of the state to coordinate efforts within industry to devise standardized and simplified versions of key consumer commodities. These would then be produced at the lowest possible price, enabling the German population to achieve an immediate breakthrough to a higher standard of living. The epithet which was generally attached to these products was Volk: the Volksempfaenger (radio), Volkswohnung (apartments), Volkswagen, Volkskuehlschrank (r
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― The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
― The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
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When Hitler addressed the Reichstag in January 1934, he could look back on a year of achievement without parallel in German history. Within twelve months he had overthrown the Weimar Republic, substituted his personal dictatorship for its democracy, destroyed all political parties but his own, smashed the state governments and their parliaments and unified and defederalized the Reich, wiped out the labor unions, stamped out democratic associations of any kind, driven the Jews out of public and p
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― Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Part 2 of 4
― Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Part 2 of 4
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September 1, 1939, the unimaginable happened. WAR! …more
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