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Third Reich
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To purchase a Volkswagen, customers were required to make a weekly deposit of at least 5 Reichsmarks into a DAF account on which they received no interest. Once the account balance had reached 750 Reichsmarks, the customer was entitled to delivery of a VW. The DAF meanwhile achieved an interest saving of 130 Reichsmarks per car. In addition, purchasers of the VW were required to take out a two-year insurance contract priced at 200 Reichsmarks. The VW savings contract was non-transferable, except
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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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