Hitler spoke about the loss of the family farm, and the globalization of stock markets and heavy industry. But that was for the rubes. Everyone knew Germany could not be self sufficient in food and the Allies reached this conclusion independently (there was a suggestion for a totally deindustrialized post war Germany but the Allies realized the numbers did not work.) Wasn’t there also a hidden currency market, where industry was protected by a government bcked currency?
1 Like
Long before the Nazis, rural anti-Semetism was huge, and the public was demanding someing like the Nuremberg laws, which put people’s sex lives under federal control. It seems they were very concerned about the whole “sanctity of marriage” thing.
In the mid-19th century, the fiercely anti-Semitic völkisch movement appeared in Germany. One of the major demands of the various völkisch groups had been the disemancipation of German Jews and banning sexual relations between those considered to be of the “Semitic race” and those considered to be of the “Aryan race”. In 1881, a petition presented to the German government by the völkisch groups demanding Jewish disemancipation and the banning of marriage and sexual intercourse between “Aryans” and “Jews” had collected over a million signatures.
1 Like
Mod note: Some of us got off topic. Get back on it.
2 Likes
No we’re talking about the same thing. I’m just ridiculing you because you don’t seem to get that socialism has never been primarily a cultural issue like I’ve said from the beginning. Protestant countries have historically had strong socialist movements. It’s totally the wrong way to understand it as a political movement about the recurring crisis of capitalism. But if righties want to understand it that way, they’re going to be blindsided by it again like they were the first time around.
Anyway, that’s the last I can say about this as we’re off topic.
1 Like
Yes, but it lead to serious inflation by 1944 when the economy started coming off the rails.
1 Like
The comments about homo-erotic imagery seem strange to me. During the war, many women were left to take care of the home themselves. They did all the housework and some also worked a full time job. They had money to spend and the advertisers knew the market - mostly women, many of whom have not been in the sack with anyone for months or years. Wanna sell your product in that environment? You better show em some skin.
1 Like
Two things: the ad with the mostly naked soldiers appeared in Good Housekeeping (a magazine aimed at housewives), and your question assumes that our ancestors didn’t have healthy sex drives (and that’s kind of insulting).
3 Likes
This topic was automatically closed after 5 days. New replies are no longer allowed.
