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    Gli oligarchi che sono venuti a pentire di aver sostenuto Hitler

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    1. unexpectedemptiness on

      I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: people voting for fascists out of greed are worse than people voting for fascists out of hate. 

    4. schmeckfest on

      The Atlantic is one of the very few news outlets in the US still doing good journalism. It’s why they’re hated by the far-right.

    6. unexpectedemptiness on

      > Hugenberg calculated that by **hollowing out the political center**, political consensus would become impossible and the democratic system would collapse.

      > Hugenberg proposed a “**freedom law**” that called for the liberation of the German people from the shackles of democracy.

      Sounds familiar? The same playbook is now used in a lot of countries.

    7. MeMyselfAnd1234 on

      >German corporations, large and small, helped retool the Weimar Republic as the Third Reich. Ferdinand Porsche designed the *Volkswagen*, a “car for the people.” Mercedes-Benz provided Hitler and his chief lieutenants with bulletproof sedans. Hugo Boss designed the black uniforms for the SS. Krupp supplied armaments. Miele produced munitions. Allianz provided insurance for concentration camps. J.A. Topf & Sons manufactured crematoria ovens. A dismayed executive at Deutsche Bank, which was involved in the expropriation of Jewish businesses, sent a letter to the chairman of his supervisory board: “I fear we are embarking on an explicit, well- planned path toward the annihilation of all Jews in Germany.”

      >For the industrialists who helped finance and supply the Hitler government, an unexpected return on their investment was slave labor. By the early 1940s, the electronics giant Siemens AG was employing more than 80,000 slave laborers. 

    8. RiverKey9096 on

      What makes the oligarch so different to the fascist? For me nothing. That is why they fit together perfectly.

    10. Glydyr on

      “Hugenberg had everything but the masses; Hitler had everything but the money.”

      After cantankerous negotiation, a deal was reached: Hugenberg would deliver Hitler the chancellorship, in exchange for Hugenberg being given a cabinet post as head of a Superministerium that subsumed the ministries of economics, agriculture, and nutrition. Once in the cabinet, Hugenberg didn’t hesitate to meddle in foreign relations when it suited him.

      Spoiler: they both lost everything 🤣

    11. DaenerysTartGuardian on

      > On the morning of Tuesday, January 31, 1933, less than 24 hours after enabling Hitler’s appointment as chancellor, [industrialist-turned media baron-turned politician] Hugenberg reportedly spoke with Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, a fellow conservative and the mayor of Leipzig. “I’ve just committed the greatest stupidity of my life,” Hugenberg allegedly told Goerdeler. “I have allied myself with the greatest demagogue in the history of the world.”

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