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[–]weavilsatemyface 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

you also think he was syphilitic, a gay prostitute while in Vienna

There's no evidence that Hitler had syphilis. I must admit the gay prostitute story is new to me. Its rather idiotic -- nobody who knew Hitler could have believed it.

a charlatan by the name of Josef Greiner

None of my statements came from Greiner.

Your claim elsewhere that the Nazis 'took credit' for supposed economic successes of the Weimar Republic

The Weimar republic managed to get through the period 1918 to 1924 despite massive war debt, hyperinflation, political instability, the army's hostility, insurrection from traitors like Ernst Röhm, the intransigence of France and Britain, international blockades, war reparations and more. They reformed the currency, brought inflation under control, kick-started the economy, increased jobs and trade, and presided through the Golden Twenties that ended only with the global Great Depression that affected pretty much everyone.

By 1929, Germany had five years of uninterrupted economic growth and rising incomes thanks to the Weimar republic. The economy was solid, and German's international reputation was much improved -- no thanks to the conservatives who tried to withdraw from the the Paris Peace pact. Even France had softened their attitude and reparations had been massively reduced. Germany was welcomed into the League of Nations and was no longer a pariah.

And then the Great Depression hit in 1929, which fucked it up for everyone, not just Germany. Weimar is no more to blame for the Great Depression than Iceland. But by 1932, the economy was recovering and unemployment was falling. Between August 1932 and 1933, unemployment fell by 1.1 million, and employment increased by 1.3 million. The economy was already improving before the conservative idiots handed power to Hitler, thinking that he would be their puppet.

The Weimar republic planned and funded the Autobahn system, with the first such highway opened to the public in 1932, the Bundesautobahn 555 (although not known by that name at the time). Hitler loved the Autobahns, and took credit for the plans which had already had money allocated from the budget, and extended it greatly.

Between 1933 and 1939, the Reich managed to increase government spending by over 23 billion Reichsmark; they had reduced their old (pre-war and Weimar) debt from 4.2 to 3.4 billion Reichsmark, but had taken on new debt of over 27 billion Reichsmark.

Like all governments, Weimar Germany made mistakes. But those mistakes were mild compared to the disastrous effect Hitler's war-mongering had, by 1945 a full quarter of the German workforce was made up of literal slaves, because so many productive German workers were dead, crippled, or in the army. The Nazi economy was a vampire, it was not productive on its own, it could only survive by sucking the life out of others.