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Hitler and others promised that as soon as the National Socialist revolution had removed Jewry, economic exploitation would be overcome and a socially just utopia would be nigh.
Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust (2011)
Nazi ideology conceived of a racial conflict as an antidote to class conflict.
Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State (2007)
In one of his central pronouncements, Hitler promised 'the creation of a socially just state,' a model society that would' continue to eradicate all [social] barriers.
Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State (2007)
Even the traditional anti-Jewish pogroms in medieval Europe were not always based on religious hatred alone. Often, anti-Semitism was combined with plunder for plunder’s sake.
Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State (2007)
By exploiting material wealth confiscated and plundered in a racial war, Hitler’s National Socialism achieved an unprecedented level of economic equality and created vast new opportunities for upward mobility for the German people.
Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State (2007)
Another source of the Nazi Party’s popularity was its liberal borrowing from the intellectual tradition of the socialist left. Many of the men who would become the movement’s leaders had been involved in communist and socialist circles.
Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State (2007)
In 1894, historian Theodor Mommsen wrote that the root cause of the anti-Semitic ‘affliction’ was ‘envy and the basest instincts,… a barbaric hatred for education, freedom, and humanism.’
Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust (2011)
The trend toward soaking business and the wealthy gained further momentum in the fiscal year 1942-43. The disproportionately large increase in domestic tax revenues that year can be traced to the state’s imposing the so-called estate inflation tax.
Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State (2007)
Some within the Nazi hierarchy… called for 'blue- and white-collar workers to be put on equal footing’ to give them a preliminary taste of the harmonious future to come, which would be achieve through a ‘generous reform of the social-welfare state in the interest of working people.’
Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State (2007)