They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps.

Sounds familiar…

The New York Times expressed astonishment that Hugenberg, an “arch-capitalist” who stood “in strongest discord with economic doctrines of the Nazi movement,” was suddenly in charge of the country’s finances. Hitler’s “socialist mask” had fallen, the Communist daily Red Banner proclaimed, arguing that “Hugenberg is in charge, not Hitler!” The weekly journal Die Weltbühne dubbed the new government “Hitler, Hugenberg & Co.”

As self-proclaimed “economic dictator,” Hugenberg kept pace with Hitler in outraging political opponents and much of the public. He purged ministries. He dismantled workers’ rights. He lowered the wages of his own employees by 10 percent.

Hugenberg didn’t care about bad press. He was accustomed to being one of the most unpopular personalities in the country.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
      39·
      20 hours ago

      we been warning about this for 10 years. the trump-hitler comps were not hyperbolic, no matter how many times you read it was fear mongering. we here in a really bad, really dangerous situation. the world needs to be ready for the things to come because things are about to get grim.

      • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        19 hours ago

        Iirc one of his wives reported him having a copy of Hitler’s speeches on his nightstand.

        Found an article:

        https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/us/politics/trump-fascism.html

        Mr. Trump has long expressed interest in the most notorious dictator of the past century, Adolf Hitler, whose Nazis also used that phrase. In a 1990 interview, Mr. Trump said he had a copy of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” although his first wife Ivana Trump and the friend who gave him the book said it was actually “My New Order,” a collection of Hitler speeches.

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
    23·
    19 hours ago

    As one Hitler associate explained the Hitler-Hugenberg dynamic: “Hugenberg had everything but the masses; Hitler had everything but the money.”

    Sounds eerily familiar no?

    The scariest part of this article is how nonchalant business seemed to be about the new regime. “Pfizer now in forced clinical trials to cure blindness through new injection – ‘We expect to see our first survivor of the procedure any day now’”