Tigray War

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The '''Tigray War''', part of the much larger [[Second Ethiopian Civil War]], is an ongoing [[revolution]] in the [[Tigray National Regional State]] and neighboring regions led by the [[Tigray People's Liberation Front]] (TPLF) against the [[Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia]]. The revolution was a response to the [[Racism|racially motivated]] anti-Tigrayan policies by [[Abiy Ahmed]]'s administration.<ref name=":0">[https://www.marxist.com/ethiopia-s-tigray-crisis-socialism-or-barbarism.htm Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis: Socialism or barbarism]</ref> While the war initially seemed as if the Ethiopian government was going to be able to squash the TPLF's revolution, the Tigrayan forces have managed to fight off the Ethiopian regulars and have managed to turn the war in their favor.<ref>[https://www.marxist.com/ethiopia-the-fall-of-mekele-marks-a-turning-point-in-the-war-in-tigray.htm Ethiopia: the fall of Mekele marks a turning point in the war in Tigray]</ref> Abiy Ahmed's administration has continued to try and forcefully squash the rebellion, which has only further fanned the flames of the Tigrayan insurrection.<ref>[https://thecommunists.org/2021/03/23/news/ethiopia-war-tigray/ What is behind the war in Tigray?]</ref>

== Historical background ==
[[File:Flag of the Tigray People's Liberation Front.svg.png|thumb|Flag of the TPLF]]

=== Tigray People's Liberation Front ===
The TPLF was founded in May of 1983 in northern Ethiopia in response to the oppression of ethnic Tigrayans by the various governments of Ethiopia throughout history. The TPLF was founded with aim of the "elimination of national oppression". It also sought the establishment of a "people's democratic state".<ref>[https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ethiopia/tigray-program.pdf PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC PROGRAMME OF THE TIGRAY PEOPLE'S LIBERATION FRONT (TPLF)]</ref>

Following the [[Autumn of Nations]], the TPLF took control of Ethiopia and became the ruling party of the country for around thirty years. However, the TPLF's government was brought down in 2018.<ref name=":2">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ3aUGceKA8 The conflict in Ethiopia—who’s fighting who, and why? | Start Here]</ref>

=== 2018-2020 political crisis ===
After the TPLF's deposition in 2018, a power struggle began between the TPLF's former government and Abiy Ahmed's new government.<ref name=":2" /> Abiy Ahmed's administration rejected reconciling with the TPLF, instead taking racially motivated actions against Tigrayans. These actions caused a rise in dissent among Tigrayans.<ref name=":0" />

== Foreign involvement ==

=== State of Eritrea ===
The [[Eritrea|State of Eritrea]] has deployed troops into the Tigray National Regional State, using their military to fight in active combat against the TPLF.<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-conflict-idUSKBN2BF1NT Ethiopian PM confirms Eritrean troops entered Tigray during conflict]</ref> While the Eritrean government promised to pull their troops out of Tigray in April of 2021, they have yet to withdraw from the conflict.<ref>[https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/17/eritrea-confirms-its-troops-are-fighting-ethiopias-tigray Eritrea confirms its troops are fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray]</ref>

=== United Arab Emirates ===
The [[United Arab Emirates]] has provided military support to the Ethiopian government.<ref name=":1">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EGm0tG9C0E Ethiopia's war in Tigray turns into defeat]</ref><ref>[https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/25/uae-air-bridge-provides-military-support-to-ethiopia-govt UAE air bridge provides military support to Ethiopia gov’t]</ref> This has come largely in the form of air support as the Emirates have deployed military planes into the Tigray National Regional State to support the Ethiopian war effort against Tigray.<ref>[https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2021/12/the-uae-joins-tigray-war-emirati-wing.html The UAE Joins The Tigray War: Emirati Wing Loong I UCAVs Deploy To Ethiopia]</ref>

=== United States of America ===
Prior to the war, the [[United States of America]] was a firm ally of Ethiopia. Initially, the [[Donald Trump|Trump]] administration didn't take any action during the conflict when it began in November of 2020. After the [[Joe Biden|Biden]] administration came to power in January of 2021, the United States began advocating for setting up humanitarian corridors. Despite this, Biden has still refused to condemn the Ethiopian government's war crimes in the conflict.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/world/middleeast/ethiopia-tigray-ethnic-cleansing.html Ethiopia’s War Leads to Ethnic Cleansing in Tigray Region, U.S. Report Says]</ref> Eritrea has alleged that the United States is supporting the TPLF,<ref>[https://apnews.com/article/united-nations-eritrea-africa-98aa53d5ca10d5cd1992209ad4bbcb57 Eritrea blames US support for Tigray’s leaders for the war]</ref> however these allegations contradict the actual actions taken by the Biden administration.

== War crimes ==
[[File:Mekele.jpg|thumb|Aftermath of an Ethiopian airstrike in [[Mekelle]], the capital of the Tigray National Region State.]]
=== Airstrikes on civilians ===
{{Main article|Airstrike}}
Both Ethiopian and Eritriean forces have engaged in air strikes against civilians in the Tigray National Regional State.<ref>[https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/02/11/ethiopia-unlawful-shelling-tigray-urban-areas Ethiopia: Unlawful Shelling of Tigray Urban Areas]</ref>

=== Ethnic cleansing ===
{{Main article|Ethnic cleansing}}
Over the course of the Tigray War, the Ethiopian government under Abiy Ahmed has taken actions of [[ethnic cleansing]] against the Tigrayan people, forcing them out of the military regardless of loyalty.<ref name=":1" /> Abiy Ahmed has also purged ethnic Tigrayans from the government.<ref name=":0" /> In the western parts of the Tigray National Regional State, Ethiopian forces have taken actions of ethnic cleansing against regular civilians.<ref>[https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/04/06/crimes-against-humanity-and-ethnic-cleansing-ethiopias-western-tigray-zone Crimes against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing in Ethiopia’s Western Tigray Zone]</ref> The Ethiopian government has tried to hide evidence of ethnic celansing back blocking telecommunications with Tigray.<ref>[https://www.vox.com/22370629/ethiopia-tigray-eritrea-amhara-war-ethnic-cleansing “Dying by blood or by hunger”: The war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, explained]</ref>

=== Genocide ===
{{Main article|Genocide}}
As the Tigray War has continued to become more brutal since its opening in November of 2020, the Ethiopian government has escalated the war into a [[genocide]] of ethnic Tigrayans. As of May of 2022, the genocide has claimed 500,000 victims.<ref>[https://www.thenation.com/article/world/genocide-in-tigray/ There’s Genocide in Tigray, but Nobody’s Talking About it]</ref>

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{{Infobox country|name=German Reich|native_name=Deutsches Reich|image_flag=Flag of Germany.svg|life_span=1933–1947|image_flag2=[[File:German Nazi Flag.png]]|flag_caption=Left: Flag from 1918-1933 Right: Flag from 1933-1945|established_event1=[[First World War|Armistice of 11 November 1918]]|established_date1=1918|established_event2=[[November Revolution]]|established_date2=1918-1919|established_event3=[[Treaty of Versailles]]|established_date3=1919|established_event4=[[Occupation of the Ruhr]]|established_date4=1923-1925|established_event5=[[Beer Hall Putsch]]|established_date5=1923|established_event6=Mein Kampf published|established_date6=1925|established_event7=[[Wall Street Crash of 1929]]|established_date7=1929|established_event8=[[Adolf Hitler]] becomes [[Chancellor of Germany|Chancellor]]|established_date8=1933|established_event9=[[Reichstag fire]] & [[Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State|Decree]]|established_date9=1933|established_event10=[[Enabling Act of 1933]]|established_date10=1933|established_event11=[[Hitler]] becomes a dictator, [[Nazi Germany]] is born|established_date11=1933|established_event12=[[Night of the Long Knives]]|established_date12=1934|established_event13=[[Remilitarization of the Rhineland]]|established_date13=1936|established_event14=[[Anschluss]]|established_date14=1938|established_event15=[[Munich Agreement]]|established_date15=1938|established_event16=[[Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945)|German invasion of Czechoslovakia]]|established_date16=1939|established_event17=[[Second World War]]|established_date17=1939-1945|established_event18=[[The Holocaust]]|established_date18=1941-1945|established_event19=[[German Instrument of Surrender]]|established_date19=1945|established_event20=Official abolition|established_date20=1947}}

The '''history of the German Reich''' begins in 1918, following the end of the [[First World War]] and the establishment of the [[German Reich (1918–1933)|Weimar-based German Reich]]. In 1933, the German Reich was transformed into a [[Fascism|fascist]] [[state]] under the rule of the [[National Socialist German Workers' Party]] (NSDAP) known as [[Nazi Germany]]. The ''de facto'' end of the German Reich came on 9 May 1945 when the Nazi military commander [[Wilhelm Keitel]] officially surrendered to the [[United Nations]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4497947.stm 'I remember the German surrender']</ref> On 25 February 1947, the [[Free State of Prussia]] was officially abolished by [[Control Council Law No. 46]], marking the ''de jure'' end of the German Reich. With the end of the German Reich, [[Allied-occupied Germany]] existed with the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)|Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]] (USSR), [[French Republic]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]] (UK), and the [[United States of America]] (USA) all having occupation zones in [[Germany]].

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German Reich (1933–1945)

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The '''German Reich''' (officially the '''Greater German Reich''' from 1943–45), commonly known as '''Nazi Germany''', the '''Third Reich''' or occasionally '''Fascist Germany''',

was a right-wing [[Fascism|fascist]] dictatorship which existed in [[Europe]] between 1933 and 1945 and was ruled by the [[Nazi Party]] (NSDAP). It was preceded by the [[German Reich (1918–1933)|Weimar Republic]] before its dissolution with the issuance of the Reichstag Fire Decree and the Enabling Act of 1933, which allowed for the then Chancellor of Germany [[Adolf Hitler]] to act outside of parliamentary control.<ref>''"The law that 'enabled' Hitler's dictatorship"''. [https://www.dw.com/en/the-law-that-enabled-hitlers-dictatorship/a-16689839 Deutsche Welle]</ref>

It began on 30 January 1933 when Hitler was appointed as chancellor (head of government) by president (head of state) Paul von Hindenburg, although the old Weimar constitution was used up to the end, with its emergency powers being extensively used. The German Reich is frequently credited with starting [[World War II]] with its invasion of Poland, hoping to seize the Soviet Union. However it lost the war and was pronounced defunct on 7 May 1945 and most of Europe’s remaining [[Axis]] personnel surrendered, with a few exceptions.<ref>{{safesubst:web citation|title=Hitler’s Holdouts – Meet the Last German Troops to Surrender in WW2|url=https://wp.me/p42Qr6-1II|date=2014-04-30}}</ref> After over four years of Allied occupation, it was succeeded by the [[Federal Republic of Germany]] and the [[German Democratic Republic]] in 1949.

The Nazi government, over the course of its existence, aggressively expanded into neighboring countries, ultimately resulting in the beginning of the [[World War II|Second World War]] with the Fascist invasion of Poland. Internally, concentration camps were set up for the forced labor, detention, and execution of Jewish and Roma people, political prisoners, communists, socialists, and trade-union activists.

A program of “involuntary euthanasia” was adopted for the state-sponsored mass murder of the disabled. This campaign of mass detention and extermination was based on pseudo-scientific racist, sexist, and anti-Semitic eugenic beliefs, which culminated in a systematic [[genocide]] commonly known as the Holocaust. The Nazi Party was destroyed at the end of World War II after the [[Soviet Union]] captured Berlin and Hitler committed suicide. The German Instrument of Surrender legally declared the surrender and dissolution of the Third Reich, which ended both the Holocaust and Second World War in Europe. The succeeding Allied occupation of Germany would result in the creation of separate [[West Germany|West]] and [[German Democratic Republic (1949–1990)|East German]] states.

== History ==
On January 4, 1933, bankers and industrialists held a secret backroom deal with then-Chancellor Von Pappen to make Hitler the nation’s new Chancellor:

{{quote|The negotiations took place exclusively between Hitler and Papen. […] Papen went on to say that he thought it best to form a government in which the conservative and nationalist elements that had supported him were represented together with the Nazis. He suggested that this new government should, if possible, be led by Hitler and himself together. Then Hitler made a long speech in which he said that, if he were to be elected Chancellor, Papen’s followers could participate in his (Hitler’s) Government as Ministers if they were willing to support his policy which was planning many alterations in the existing state of affairs. He outlined these alterations, including the removal of all Social Democrats, Communists and Jews from leading positions in Germany and the restoration of order in public life. Von Papen and Hitler reached agreement in principle whereby many of the disagreements between them could be removed and cooperation might be possible. It was agreed that further details could be worked out later either in Berlin or some other suitable place.|Kurt Baron von Schröder|<ref>{{safesubst:citation|editors=Geoffrey Pridham & Jeremy Noakes|title=Nazism, 1919–1945|title-url=https://ghdi.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=3941|location=Exeter|publisher=University of Exeter Press|volume=I|year=1998|page=115–16}}</ref>}}

In February 1933, the new Chancellor met with the Reich’s leading industrialists at Hermann Göring’s home. There were representatives from IG Farben, AG Siemens, BMW, coal mining magnates, Theissen Corp, AG Krupp, as well as a crowd of bankers, investors, and other bourgeois Germans. During this meeting, the Chancellor said that ‘''Private enterprise cannot be maintained in the age of democracy.''’ To reduce regulation, the Chancellery sent its henchmen to every union headquarters on May 2nd, 1933. They beat the union leaders, sent them to prison or concentration camps, and their party expropriated the union money that the workers paid for their memberships. The unions were now under the leadership of the Chancellery’s anticommunists, who helped bargain away all collective bargaining rights.<ref>{{safesubst:web citation|title=Germany 1933: from democracy to dictatorship|url=https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/go-in-depth/germany-1933-democracy-dictatorship|date=2018-09-28}}</ref> One Fascist economist indicated that his party indeed had a thorough plan for deregulation:

{{quote|The first thing [that] German business needs is peace and quiet. It must have a feeling of absolute legal security and must know that work and its return are guaranteed. The interferences in a business which occurred at first, perhaps as a result of too much zeal, have become intolerable.|Gottfried Feder|<ref>{{safesubst:citation|editor=Briton Hadden|title=NAZIS EASE GRASP ON REICH'S BUSINESS|title-url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1933/07/04/105151560.html?pageNumber=5|publisher=Time Incorporated|date=1933-07-04|volume=XXII}}</ref>}}

In September 1933, the Chancellery repeatedly cut social provisions, including food rations, to the poor under the guise of combating ‘idolatry’.<ref>{{safesubst:citation|title=GERMANS TO SKIMP ON A MEAL A MONTH AND FEED JOBLESS|title-url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1933/09/14/105802896.html|publisher=Time Incorporated|date=1933-09-14}}</ref> In 1934, the Fascists outlined their plan to revitalize the Reich’s economy by reprivatization of significant industries: medicine,<ref name=Muehlbauer>{{safesubst:web citation|last=Muehlbauer|first=Peter|title=Obama, Hitler und die Krankenversicherung|url=https://www.heise.de/tp/news/Obama-Hitler-und-die-Krankenversicherung-1992294.html|publisher=Heise Medien|date=2009-08-28|language=German}}</ref> railways, public works,<ref>{{safesubst:citation|title=REICH WILL PUSH PRIVATE BUSINESS|title-url=https://www.nytimes.com/1933/09/21/archives/germany-to-push-private-business-economic-council-decides-on-that.html|publisher=Time Incorporated|date=1933-09-21}}</ref> construction, steel, and banking. Additionally, the Chancellery guaranteed profits for the private sector, thus many American industrialists and bankers flocked to the Reich to invest.

On January 20, 1934, the Chancellery transferred its right to set minimum wages and working conditions over to the businessowners, stating that the ‘''leader of the enterprise makes the decisions for the employees and laborers in all matters concerning the enterprise, as far as they are regulated by this law.''’<ref>{{safesubst:web citation|title=Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression|url=https://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/1861-ps.asp|location=Washington|publisher=Office of the United States Chief Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality|volume=IV|year=1946}}</ref> Hence, the employers lowered wages, increased hours,<ref>https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ffe67095-0f49-4b78-8a15-982b5782d8f5_562x529.jpeg</ref> eliminated other benefits, and prohibited workers from striking or engaging in other collective bargaining rights. The anticommunists eliminated reimbursements for Jewish physicians, which allowed private health insurance companies to profit.<ref name=Muehlbauer/> The anticommunists also rounded up the homeless en-masse and interned them in concentration camps.<ref>{{safesubst:citation|last=Ayaß|first=W.|title=Vagrants and beggars in Hitler's Reich|title-url=https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ed34/3d9f11cc03485e7b59489ce6004b40013aa6.pdf|year=1988}}</ref> By the time that the head of the AFL visited the German Reich in 1938, he likened the life of an average German worker to that of a slave.<ref>{{safesubst:citation|title=GERMAN LABORER LIKENED TO SLAVE|title-url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/11/22/98211078.html?pageNumber=5|publisher=Time Incorporated|date=1938-11-22}}</ref>

== Economy ==
{{quote|Irrespective of a quite bad overall performance, an important characteristic of the economy of the Third Reich, and a big difference from a centrally planned one, was the role private ownership of firms was playing—in practice as well as in theory. The ideal Nazi economy would liberate the creativeness of a multitude of private entrepreneurs in a predominantly competitive framework gently directed by the state to achieve the highest welfare of the Germanic people.|Christoph Buchheim and Jonas Scherner|<ref>{{safesubst:citation|last1=Buchheim|first1=Christoph|last2=Scherner|first2=Jonas|title=The Role of Private Property in the Nazi Economy: The Case of Industry|journal=Thtation of Economic History|title-url=http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/capitalisback/CountryData/Germany/Other/Pre1950Series/RefsHistoricalGermanAccounts/BuchheimScherner06.pdf|publisher=Cambridge University Press|volume=66|number=2|year=2006|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910091952/http://economics.yale.edu/sites/default/
files/f
iles/Workshops-Seminars/Economic-History/buchheim-041020.pdf|archivedate=2015-09-10|page=411|acc
essdate=2020-01-18}}</ref>}}

The German Reich was the second modern nation after the [[Kingdom of Italy]] to implement a [[privatization]] programme.<ref>{{safesubst:web citation|last=Bel|first=Germà|title=Against the mainstream: Nazi privatization in 1930s Germany|url=http://www.ub.edu/graap/nazi.pdf|location=Barcelona|publisher=Universitat de Barcelona i ppre-IREA|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720073011/http://www.ub.edu/graap/nazi.pdf|archivedate=2011-07-20|accessdate=2020-01-29}}</ref> Indeed, the term ‘privatization’ itself<ref>{{safesubst:citation|last=Bel|first=Germà|title=Retrospectives: The Coining of “Privatization” and Germany’s National Socialist Party|title-url=https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/jep.20.3.187|journal=Journal of Economic Perspectives|volume=20|number=3|year=2006|page=187–194}}</ref> was coined to refer to their economic reforms.<ref>{{safesubst:web citation|title=The Nazi Heritage of Privatization|date=11-September-2006|url=https://wp.me/p1kjl-1d}}</ref> Capitalist economist Mark Thoma has conceded as much.<ref>{{safesubst:web citation| title = Economist's View: The Origins of the Term "Privatization"| accessdate = 2019-10-09| url = https://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2006/09/the_origins_of_.html}}</ref> While consumer spending in the Reich’s economy did decrease from 71% in 1929 to 59% in 1938,<ref>{{safesubst:citation|last=Overy|first=R.J.|title=Guns or Butter? Living Standards, Finance, and Labour in Germany, 1939–1942|title-url=https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202905.001.0001/acprof-9780198202905-chapter-10|year=1994|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202905.003.0010|ISBN=9780198202905}}</ref> income from capital and business also increased from 17.4% of the national income to 26.6%,<ref>{{safesubst:citation| last = Shirer| first = William Lawrence| title = The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany|title-url=https://archive.org/stream/B-001-014-606|publisher=Simon and Schuster|year=1960|page=264|ISBN=978-1-4516-5168-3}}</ref> and the rate of return on capital increased in the Fascists’ industry.<ref>{{safesubst:citation|last=Tooze|first=Adam|chapter=4|title=The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy|title-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-h_Z_KK0MQUC|location=London|publisher=Penguin Books|year=2006|page=152|ISBN=978-1-101-56495-0}}</ref>

{{quote|In 1936/37 the capital of the ''Deutsche Bank'', ''Commerzbank'' and ''Dresdner Bank'' in the possession of the German Reich was resold to private shareholders, and consequently the state representatives withdrew from the boards of these banks. Also in 1936 the Reich sold its shares of ''Vereinigte Stahlwerke''. The war did not change anything with regard to this attitude. In 1940 the Genshagen airplane engine plant operated by ''Daimler-Benz'' was privatized; ''Daimler-Benz'' bought the majority of shares held by the Reich earlier than it wished to. But the company was urged by the Reich Aviation Ministry and was afraid that the Reich might offer the deal to another firm. Later in the war the Reich actively tried to privatize as many ''Montan GmbH'' companies as possible, but with little success.|Christoph Buchheim and Jonas Scherner|<ref name=Buchheim406>{{safesubst:citation|last1=Buchheim|first1=Christoph|last2=Scherner|first2=Jonas|title=The Role of Private Property in the Nazi Economy: The Case of Industry|journal=Thtation of Economic History|title-url=http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/capitalisback/CountryData/Germany/Other/Pre1950Series/RefsHistoricalGermanAccounts/BuchheimScherner06.pdf|publisher=Cambridge University Press|volume=66|number=2|year=2006|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910091952/http://economics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Workshops-Seminars/Economic-History/buchheim-041020.pdf|archivedate=2015-09-10|page=406|accessdate=2020-01-18}}</ref>}}

It was possible for capitalists to fund their projects without relying on any state funds. The development of the first relay computer, for example, was funded entirely through private means,<ref>{{safesubst:web citation|title=Konrad Zuse—the first relay computer|url=https://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/Relays/Zuse.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20201105231836/https://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/Relays/Zuse.html|archivedate=2020-11-05}}</ref> and while the head of state was unimpressed with the invention they still used it for some minor operations such as calculating aircraft wing design.<ref>{{safesubst:web citation|last=Malcolm|first=Chris|title=Who Made the First Computer?|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180923013651/http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/fcomp.shtml|archivedate=2018-09-23}}</ref> Similarly, another business, Günther & Co., designed a board game without any government input. Although the Schutzstaffel harshly criticized its theme, going so far as to call it ‘almost punishable’, it nonetheless never bothered to actually prohibit it.<ref>{{safesubst:citation|last1=Morris-Friedman|first1=Andrew|last2=Schädler|first2=Ulrich|title=“Juden Raus!” (Jews Out!) – History’s most infamous board game|title-url=http://www.giochidelloca.it/storia/BGS6.pdf|journal=International Journal for the Study of Board Games|location=Leiden|publisher=Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies|year=2003|volume=6|page=44–58|ISSN=1566-1962}}</ref> The German Air Ministry requested prototypes from six companies (Gustloff-Werke, Mauser, Johannes Großfuß Metall- und Lackierwarenfabrik, C.G. Hänel, Rheinmetall-Borsig and Heinrich Krieghoff Waffenfabrik), only two (Krieghoff and Rheinmetall) of whom answered favorably, and an irrelevant offer from Mauser was rejected. All others denied that they could even consider it since they were already working to capacity for the Heereswaffenamt and required its approval for the request.<ref name="Senich">{{citation|last=Senich|first=Peter|title=The German Assault Rifle: 1935–1945|page=239|publisher=Paladin Press|year=1987}}</ref> <ref name="Dugelby">{{citation|last=Dugelby|first=Thomas B.|title=Death from Above—The German FG42 Paratroop Rifle|page=4|publisher=Collector Grade Publications|year=2007}}</ref>

While the [[bourgeoisie]] did implement some regulations, they did this for the sake of their militarily driven economy (much like the [[U.K.]] and the [[U.S.A.]] did during wartime); their purpose was to reinforce private ownership and [[capitalism]]. Henry Spiegel noted three main characteristics of the Third Reich’s economy:<ref>{{safesubst:citation
|author=Henry W. Spiegel |editor=|editors= |title=Wehrwirtschaft: Economics of the Military State |journal=The American Economic Review |title-url=https://www.jstor.org.libdata.lib.ua.edu/stable/1805064 |location= |publisher= |year=1940 |volume=30 |number=4 |page=717|isbn= |oclc=}}</ref>

# That it was an ‘economy of scarcity’, that is to say, that the exploitation of ‘men and materials was pushed to the limits’.
# That the state used ‘centralized planning under maintenance of some element of the price system’.
# That the state retained the ‘profit motive’ as the primary ‘economic motor’.

There is little evidence to support the interpretation that the German Reich was a ‘[[planned economy]]’.<ref>{{safesubst:citation|last1=Frøland|first1=Hans|last2=Ingulstad|first2=Mats|last3=Scherner|first3=Jonas|chapter=1|editors=Hans Otto Frøland, Mats Ingulstad, & Jonas Scherner|title=Industrial Collaboration in Nazi-Occupied Europe: Norway in Context|title-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fIMgDQAAQBAJ|location=London|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2016|page=18–9|ISBN=978-1-137-53423-1|LCCN=2016942278|DOI=10.1057/978-1-137-53423-1}}</ref> The little ‘central planning’ that the bourgeoisie used was not analogous to the Soviet planning; it was more akin to strategic visions for the economy. The ''Wehrwirtschaft'' ideal held primacy in these plans, which sought to transform the economy into an ‘integrated part of the military machine’, but retaining the system of private ownership.<ref>{{safesubst:citation|author=Martin Wolfe |editor=|editors= |title=The Development of Nazi Monetary Policy |journal=Thtation of Economic History |title-url=https://www.jstor.org.libdata.lib.ua.edu/stable/2114432 |location= |publisher= |year=1955 |volume=15 |number=4 |page=393|isbn= |oclc=}}</ref> For example, rather than allocating production directly according to the System of Material Balances (as the [[U.S.S.R.]] did), the Four Year Plan of 1936 merely instituted price controls, particularly to discourage consumption of goods deemed to be luxuries and to promote the ‘basic industries’ that formed the Fascists’ apparatus of war production.<ref>{{safesubst:citation
|author=Martin Wolfe |editor=|editors= |title=The Development of Nazi Monetary Policy |journal=Thtation of Economic History |title-url=https://www.jstor.org.libdata.lib.ua.edu/stable/2114432 |location= |publisher= |year=1955 |volume=15 |number=4 |page=394|isbn= |oclc=}}</ref> Thus food prices effectively increased between the Second Reich and the Third Reich, even despite the ‘higher’ wages and anticommunist attempts at price control, and some foods such as beef, white bread, cereals, and fruits only became more difficult for the proletariat to access (though pork, rye bread, and potatoes did not).<ref>{{safesubst:citation|last=Winkler|first=Robin|editors=Rui Esteves, Arthur Downing|title=Feast or Famine: The Welfare Impact of Food Price Controls in Nazi Germany|title-url=https://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/materials/papers/13982/feast-or-famine-rm-winkler-1.pdf|journal=Discussion

Papers in Economic and Social History|publisher=University of Oxford|number=136|year=2015}}</ref> In the agricultural realm, the bourgeoisie did not undertake anything resembling Soviet collectivization, but rather instituted price controls through the ''Reichsnährstand'' (‘Reich Food Estate’) to control cost of living.<ref>{{safesubst:citation|author=Martin Wolfe |editor=|editors= |title=The Development of Nazi Monetary Policy |journal=Thtation of Economic History |title-url=https://www.jstor.org.libdata.lib.ua.edu/stable/2114432 |location= |publisher= |year=1955 |volume=15 |number=4 |page=395|isbn= |oclc=}}</ref> The bourgeoisie would institute a new, hereditary law in 1933 that made it much more difficult for anybody to obtain a gentile’s<ref>{{safesubst:web citation|title=1933: KEY DATES|url=https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007499|accessdate=2020-04-25}}</ref> farm, even through trade.<ref>{{safesubst:web citation|title=The Hereditary Farm Law (September 29, 1933)|url=http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=1550|accessdate=2020-04-25}}</ref>

Among the Reich’s industries, the oil industry was perhaps the best example for how the Fascist bourgeoisie operated the ''Wehrwirtschaft'', as the NSDAP considered it to occupy a ‘special and irreplaceable role’ within the market economy and military machine;<ref>{{safesubst:citation |author=Raymond G. Stokes |editor=|editors= |title=The Oil Industry in Nazi Germany, 1936–1945 |journal=The Business History Review |title-url=https://www.jstor.org.libdata.lib.ua.edu/stable/3114932 |location= |publisher= |year=1985 |volume=59 |number=2 |page=254|isbn= |oclc=}}</ref> thus Fascist capital’s inability to steal all of the oil and steel from the U.S.S.R. would further ensure the Reich’s collapse.<ref>{{safesubst:citation|last=Tooze|first=Adam|chapter=17|title=The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy|title-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-h_Z_KK0MQUC|location=London|publisher=Penguin Books|year=2006|page=686–7|ISBN=978-1-101-56495-0}}</ref> In the 1930s, Porsche quickly designed the Volkswagen Beetle because one anticommunist claimed to want a cheap and sturdy vehicle that almost everybody in the Reich would be able to drive. He lobbied for his approval, and Porsche’s neoslaves soon began producing these vehicles by the thousands, to the point where they ran low on dealerships, but the project turned out to be a scam:

{{quote|Since private industry could not turn out an automobile for $396, Hitler ordered the State to build it and placed the Labor Front in charge of the project. Dr. Ley’s organization promptly set out in 1938 to build at Fallersleben, near Braunschweig, “the biggest automobile factory in the world,” with a capacity for turning out a million and a half cars a year “more than Ford,” the Nazi propagandists said. The Labor Front advanced fifty million marks in capital. But that was not the main financing. Dr. Ley’s ingenious plan was that the workers themselves should furnish the capital by means of what became known as a “pay-before-you-get-it” installment plan five marks a week, or if a worker thought he could afford it, ten or fifteen marks a week. When 750 marks had been paid in, the buyer received an order number entitling him to a car as soon as it could be turned out. Alas for the worker, not a single car was ever turned out for any customer during the Third Reich. Tens of millions of marks were paid in by the German wage earners, not a pfennig of which was ever to be refunded. By the time the war started the Volkswagen factory turned to the manufacture of goods more useful to the Army.|William Shirer|<ref name=pg267>{{safesubst:citation|last=Shirer|first=William Lawrence|chapter=8|title=The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany|title-url=https://archive.org/stream/B-001-014-606|publisher=Simon and Schuster|year=1960|page=267|ISBN=978-1-4516-5168-3}}</ref>}}

Siemens in particular was probably the most important and prolific business in the German Reich, and consequently lost most of its factories during WWII. The business was responsible for the rail infrastructure, communications, power generation, factories (including in Auschwitz and Buchenwald), firearms, execution chambers, and more, throughout the Reich, and survivors later demanded reparations from this business.<ref>{{safesubst:web citation|last=Levy|first=Stephanie|title=Holocaust litigation: asking the courts to right a historic wrong.|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Holocaust+litigation:+asking+the+courts+to+right+a+historic+wrong-a063795747|date=2000-07-01}}</ref> <ref>{{safesubst:web citation|title=Siemens retreats over Nazi name|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2233890.stm|date=2002-09-05}}</ref> Other businesses such as the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and Bertelsmann distributed a wide range of propaganda to the Wehrmacht and other anticommunists in the forms of books and magazines. Although somebody did jail a few senior Bertelsmann employees for alleged black-market paper trading in 1944, the Reich Minister of Propaganda pardoned them anyway.<ref>{{safesubst:web citation|last=Manus|first=Elizabeth|title=Bertelsmann’s Nazi Past Gets Ho-Hummed in U.S.|url=https://observer.com/?p=18503|date=1999-01-18|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724074250/http://www.observer.com/1999/01/bertelsmanns-nazi-past-gets-hohummed-in-us|archivedate=2011-07-24}}</ref>

Under the banner of ‘rearmament and autarky’, the Fascist bourgeoisie began to use its Four Year Plans to encourage sectors like construction, oil, chemicals, and engineering over others, such as coal and agriculture.<ref>{{safesubst:citation |author=Raymond G. Stokes |editor=|editors= |title=The Oil Industry in Nazi Germany, 1936–1945 |journal=The Business History Review |title-url=https://www.jstor.org.libdata.lib.ua.edu/stable/3114932 |location= |publisher= |year=1985 |volume=59 |number=2 |page=258–260|isbn= |oclc=}}</ref> Under the Plans, the bourgeois state took control over marketing, but corporate leaders remained in charge of the industry as a whole, indicating that the NSDAP was uninterested in either nationalization or direct government management.<ref>{{safesubst:citation |author=Raymond G. Stokes |editor=|editors= |title=The Oil Industry in Nazi Germany, 1936–1945 |journal=The Business History Review |title-url=https://www.jstor.org.libdata.lib.ua.edu/stable/3114932 |location= |publisher= |year=1985 |volume=59 |number=2 |page=254 |isbn= |oclc=}}</ref>

{{quote|Available sources make perfectly clear that the Nazi regime did not want at all a German economy with public ownership of many or all enterprises. Therefore it generally had no intention whatsoever of nationalizing private firms or creating state firms. On the contrary the reprivatization of enterprises was furthered wherever possible.|Christoph Buchheim and Jonas Scherner|<ref>{{safesubst:citation|last1=Buchheim|first1=Christoph|last2=Scherner|first2=Jonas|title=The Role of Private Property in the Nazi Economy: The Case of Industry|journal=Thtation of Economic History|title-url=http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/capitalisback/CountryData/Germany/Other/Pre1950Series/RefsHistoricalGermanAccounts/BuchheimScherner06.pdf|publisher=Cambridge University Press|volume=66|number=2|year=2006|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910091952/http://economics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Workshops-Seminars/Economic-History/buchheim-041020.pdf|archivedate=2015-09-10|page=405–406|accessdate=2020-01-18}}</ref>}}

On the rare occasions when they were forced to make use of state-owned factories, they included a contract option allowing private owners to purchase it. In addition, they avoided the creation of state-owned enterprises whenever possible, favoring private investment:

{{quote|State-owned plants were to be avoided wherever possible. Nevertheless, sometimes they were necessary when private industry was not prepared to realize a war-related investment on its own. In these cases, the Reich often insisted on the inclusion in the contract of an option clause according to which the private firm operating the plant was entitled to purchase it. Even the establishment of ''Reichswerke Hermann Goring'' in 1937 is no contradiction to the rule that the Reich principally did not want public ownership of enterprises. The Reich in fact tried hard to win the German industry over to engage in the project.|Christoph Buchheim and Jonas Scherner|<ref name=Buchheim406/>}}

In 1938 for example, the Reich forced the Jewish businessman Julius Fromm to vend his condom business to Baroness Elisabeth von Epenstein at 116,000ℛℳ, a fraction of its real value. In return for this, she gave Hermann Göring two castles.<ref>{{safesubst:web citation|last1=Aly|first1=Gotz|last2=Sontheimer|first2=Michael|transl=Shelley Frisch|title=Fromms: How Julius Fromm's Condom Empire Fell to the Nazis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ZYrAQAAQBAJ|date=2009-10-13|publisher=Other Press, LLC|page=98|ISBN=9781590513774}}</ref>

In terms of worker’s rights, the Fascist bourgeoisie immediately began to crack down on illegal groups (socialists and social democrats): first, ensuring that these groups were destroyed by force, and second, granting ‘extraordinary powers’ to employers to minimize the ability of workers to organize.<ref>{{safesubst:citation |last = Mason |first = Tim |editor=|editors= |title=The Workers’ Opposition in Nazi Germany |journal=History Workshop |title-url=https://www.jstor.org.libdata.lib.ua.edu/stable/4288349 |location= |publisher= |year=1981 |volume=11 |number= |page=121|isbn= |oclc=}}</ref>

The anticommunists established the German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront, DAF) by destroying non-DAF trade unions and seizing their funds.<ref>{{safesubst:web citation|title=Persecution of Trade Unionists|url=https://neu.org.uk/media/3056/view|year=2012}}</ref> Propaganda suggested that the DAF was intended to mediate conflicts between businessowners and workers. In practice, the anticommunists used the DAF to decrease workers’ power and to trap them in their current place of employment.<ref>{{safesubst:citation|last=Shirer|first=William Lawrence|chapter=8|title=The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany|title-url=https://archive.org/stream/B-001-014-606|publisher = Simon and Schuster|year=1960|page=263|ISBN=978-1-4516-5168-3}}</ref> After the so-called German Labor Front absorbed the unions, wages fell for front-line workers, working hours increased by 15%, industrial accidents became more common, and capitalists could blacklist workers for complaining about the working conditions.<ref>{{safesubst:web citation|title=Life in Nazi Germany 1933-1939|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zpq9p39/revision/1|accessdate=2020-04-26}}</ref> The anticommunists introduced the large ‘Strength Through Joy’ (Kraft Durch Freude) vacation program to sell the working class on Fascism and to boost the Reich’s tourism, but contrary to what the propaganda suggested, it was heavily involved in regimenting the leisure time of workers towards Fascist goals rather than allowing the proletariat more freedoms:

{{quote|Tied down by so many controls at wages little above the subsistence level, the German workers, like the Roman proletariat, were provided with circuses by their rulers to divert attention from their miserable state. “We had to divert the attention of the masses from material to moral values,” Dr. Ley once explained. “It is more important to feed the souls of men than their stomachs.” 
So he came up with an organization called Kraft durch Freude (“Strength through Joy”). This provided what can only be called regimented leisure. […] [I]t [was] deemed necessary to control not only the working hours but the leisure hours of the individual. This was what “Strength through Joy” did. In pre-Nazi days Germany had tens of thousands of clubs devoted to everything from chess and soccer to bird watching. Under the Nazis no organized social, sport or recreational group was allowed to function except under the control and direction of Kraft durch Freude.|William Shirer|<ref>{{safesubst:citation| last = Shirer| first = William Lawrence| title = The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany|title-url=https://archive.org/stream/B-001-014-606|publisher=Simon and Schuster|year=1960|page=265|ISBN=978-1-4516-5168-3}}</ref>}}

Whereas the [[Weimar Republic]] created collective wage agreements across industries in hopes of preventing intense competition for labor, the Third Reich’s official wage rates were far lower than Weimar wage rates, could be overruled (allowing lower pay) for individual companies by the DAF’s ‘labor trustees’, and disallowed the possibility of collective bargaining by the workers.<ref>{{safesubst:citation|last=Siegel|first=Tilla|title=Wage Policy in Nazi Germany|title-url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/003232928501400101|journal=Politics & Society|location=|publisher=|date=1985-03-01|volume=14|issue=1|page=1–51|DOI=10.1177/003232928501400101}}</ref> Unemployment was approximately 34% in early 1933, and official statistics reduced this rate to 0.9% for 1939.<ref>{{safesubst:citation|last1=Galenson|first1=Walter|last2=Zellner|first2=Arnold|editor=Universities-National Bureau|title=International Comparison of Unemployment Rates|title-url=https://www.nber.org/chapters/c2649.pdf|journal=The Measurement and Behavior of Unemployment|publisher=NBER|year=1957|page=455–474, 526–537|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919113314/https://www.nber.org/chapters/c2649.pdf|archivedate=2015-09-19|ISBN=0-691-04144-X}}</ref> This was likely in part because the official statistics did not take conscriptions, enemies of the bourgeois state, or women into account.<ref>{{safesubst:web citation|title=Life in Nazi Germany 1933-1939|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zqrfj6f/revision/3|accessdate=2020-04-25}}</ref> [[Neoslavery]] would expand and contribute to the Reich’s economy recovery.<ref>{{safesubst:citation|last=Silverman|first=Dan|title=Hitler’s Economy: Nazi Work Creation Programs, 1933–1936|title-url=https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674740716|date=1998-08-31|ISBN=9780674740716}}</ref>

Abroad, the German Reich frequently engaged in what came to be termed ‘fascist imperialism’ by historian Maurice Dobb.<ref>{{safesubst:citation |last = Dobb |first = Maurice |editor=|editors= |title=Aspects of Nazi Economic Policy |journal=Science & Society |title-url=https://www.jstor.org.libdata.lib.ua.edu/stable/40399575 |location= |publisher= |year=1944 |volume=8 |number=2 |page=97|isbn= |oclc=}}</ref> Dobb pointed out that, while earlier imperialist ventures targeted unindustrialized and undeveloped nations, Fascist imperialism annexed countries that had “already reached a high level of industrial development” and incorporated them as colonies of the Reich.<ref name=Dobb>{{safesubst:citation |last = Dobb |first = Maurice |editor=|editors= |title=Aspects of Nazi Economic Policy |journal=Science & Society |title-url=https://www.jstor.org.libdata.lib.ua.edu/stable/40399575 |location= |publisher= |year=1944 |volume=8 |number=2 |page=98|isbn= |oclc=}}</ref> For example, as the Reich’s debt accumulated dramatically,<ref>{{safesubst:citation|title=Economic Controls in Nazi Germany|title-url=https://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre1940110100#H2_4|date=1940-11-01|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910204241/http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre1940110100#H2_4|archivedate=2015-09-10}}</ref> and the annexation of Austria did little to improve the economy,<ref>{{safesubst:citation|last=Abt|first=Parker|title=The Nazi Fiscal Cliff: Unsustainable Financial Practices before World War II|title-url=https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1188&context=ghj|journal=The Gettysburg Historical Journal|volume=16|article=5|year=2017}}</ref> the German anticommunists would invade Western Poland in 1939 and devastate many of the industries there. Once the bourgeois state successfully subordinated a country, it embarked upon the “unprecedented” task of “de-industrializing” it so that it could produce food and raw materials for the Fascist economy, while maintaining a “monopoly of industrial production” in the German heartland itself.<ref name=Dobb/> When de-industrialization was complete, the bourgeois state granted Fascist firms “extensive privileges” to develop raw material production in the occupied territories, and established “obligatory delivery quotas” of such materials to the Fascists.<ref>{{safesubst:citation |last = Dobb |first = Maurice |editor=|editors= |title=Aspects of Nazi Economic Policy |journal=Science & Society |title-url=https://www.jstor.org.libdata.lib.ua.edu/stable/40399575 |location= |publisher= |year=1944 |volume=8 |number=2 |page=99|isbn= |oclc=}}</ref>

Many Nordic capitalists proved quite useful to the Reich. As early as 1940, 54% of Finnish exports went to the Reich.<ref>{{safesubst:citation|title=Yearbook of Finnish Foreign Policy|title-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P9bwAAAAMAAJ|publisher=Finnish Institute of International Affairs|year=1976|page=9}}</ref> Despite the Finnish’s anti-German sentiment that the Reich’s policy during the [[Winter War]] generated, the Fascists knew that Finnish demands were much easier to meet than those of the Soviets, and the Finnish bourgeoisie willingly vended 60% of Petsamo’s nickel to the Reich during 1940, much to the Soviets’ displeasure. By August 1940 the Reich was quietly supplying the Finnish state with arms through private commercial channels, and the Finnish and German bourgeoisies signed a significant arms delivery by October 1940 and a supplementary troop transit by November 1940, further worrying the Soviets.<ref>>{{safesubst:citation|last=Krosby|first=H.|title=The Diplomacy of the Petsamo Question and Finnish-German Relations, March–December 1940|journal=Scandia|title-url=https://journals.lub.lu.se/scandia/article/download/774/560|volume=31|number=2|year=1965}}</ref>

===The “economic miracle”===
The one credited for the Third Reich’s “economic miracle” is Hjalmar Schacht, a freemason banker and an old establishment figure who was the president of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic during the 1920s, whom Hitler appointed as Minister of Economics in 1934 — since Fascists were mostly economically illiterate romanticists who were more concerned about racial identity politics than developing a coherent economic model that would truly be an alternative to capitalism. Under the centrist Schacht, the new “national socialist” economy underwent massive privatization. The economically left-leaning faction of the NSDAP that had hoped for ‘real socialism’ with German characteristics was knifed in the same year that Schacht was put in charge.

Hjalmar Schacht brought a cartel economy that was dominated by monopolies like Siemens, Gutehoffnungshütte, Krupp, and Rheinmetall. In the 1930s Germany became one of the most privatized countries in the world, at a time where the world was trying to find its way out of the depression either through experimenting with socialism or Keynesian economics. The Third Reich, instead of breaking up monopolies, was strengthening them. Big business conglomerates were preferred to smaller ones because political intervention and lobbying would be easier. The plan was to make politics involved in business through mutual cooperation, also known as corporatism. Schacht, although being a center-rightist, did support the plan of achieving full employment through public work, yet even this wasn't devised by the Nazis either — the attempt to alleviate unemployment through work brigades constructing the autobahn was a continuation of policies that had been instituted in the late Weimar Republic with the support of the last chancellor, Kurt von Schleicher, who alongside leftists was purged as well during the the Night of the Long Knives.

Since massive public work programs and stimulating the economy required deficit spending, Schacht introduced a scheme that could massively increase government spending without the appearance of it — this was achieved by setting up a private dummy company called '''Me'''tallurgische '''Fo'''rschungsgesellschaft, or MEFO for short, which was a joint-venture effort by the four biggest industrial players — Siemens, Gutehoffnungshütte, Krupp, and Rheinmetall. The only purpose of this company was issuing so-called "MEFO bills". The plan was that when the government would order a new batch of tanks, it would not pay directly with Reichsmarks. The payment to the armament producer would instead be deferred with a MEFO bill given out by MEFO, which operated as a ‘private company’, with a guarantee of MEFO paying the producer in the period of six months, and the government relying on the Reichsbank’s ‘unofficial’ promise to buy these contracts right before the pay date.

Due to Schacht’s scheme, the German economy actually recovered, but there were two problems here: since these MEFO bills had a 4% annual interest rate and they could be traded between the armament producers, they were used like money in trade deals between different German companies. They were even preferred over actual money. The armament producers did not want these contracts to end and so they extended them further and further beyond the initial six-month pay date. They became a pseudo-currency in themselves. Secondly, a big portion of these contracts were given to arms producers and not civilian construction of peace economics. It became clear that the MEFO scheme was primarily to achieve rearmament, bypassing the Versailles Treaty by avoiding making new public debt in the official books. Consumption actually stagnated and at this point the ‘happy well-fed German family driving a Volkswagen’ trope was becoming a myth. Military spending went from constituting 1% of the national budget to 10% in a few years between 1933 and 1936. Schacht desperately tried to warn Hitler that he was going to get the country bankrupt at this rate of military spending.

Hjalmar Schacht maintained that the MEFO scheme was not a permanent solution, but a short, temporary measure to get the economy going again. When unemployment sufficiently lowered and Germany rearmed, he and price commissioner Dr. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler both tried to persuade Hitler that the German Reich was now a defiant military power again and it was the perfect time to change gears from military to civilian-oriented production and develop new trade deals in the world market. For Schacht and Goerdler, further military expenditure at the expense of civilian economic growth was insane and made no sense form a rational point of view. With military expenditures quickly growing far larger than the civilian work-creation programs, Schacht realized that the Chancellery’s imperialist ambitions of achieving Lebenraum through violent irredentism surpassed that of securing the economic gains and social stability of the last four years.

The economic miracle credited to Schacht declined when the Chancellery decided to replace him with the economically illiterate and trigger-happy Goering in 1937. With Schacht gone, the ongoing massive military expenditure was creating a debt with which the national civilian economy could not cope anymore. The overblown Fascist military-industrial complex was not devised to built refrigerators and hydroelectric power plants; it could nonetheless plunder and pillage neighboring states. Hitler and Goering expected that upcoming territorial expansion would provide the means of repaying the soaring national debt, by using the wealth and manpower of conquered nations. Their targets were, however, largely poverty-stricken. In the last years of the Third Reich, 25% of the labour force was made up of slaves, mostly Poles and Jews, many of them working at in the Auschwitz labor camps for IG Farben’s rubber plants fueling the war effort. Perhaps the most disturbing moment that Hitler had was when he traded Schacht’s developed economic theories for the idea that a sustainable economy could be run on slave labor and looting at the heart of Europe in the 20th century.

== Infrastructure ==

=== Health ===
The German Reich experienced significant mortality and nutritional crises during peacetime (a remarkably rare occurrence in a developed nation):

{{quote|Germany experienced a substantial increase in mortality rates in most age groups in the mid-1930s, even relative to those of 1932, the worst year of the Great Depression. Moreover, children’s heights—an indicator of the quality of nutrition and health—were generally stagnating between 1933 and 1938, but had increased significantly during the 1920s. Persecution, by itself, does not explain such an adverse development in biological welfare; the non-persecuted segments of the German population were affected as well.|Andrea Wagner & Jörg Baten|<ref name=Autarchy>{{safesubst:citation |last1=Baten |first1=Jörg |last2=Wagner |first2=Andrea |editor=|editors= |title=Autarchy, market disintegration, and health: the mortality and nutritional crisis in Nazi Germany, 1933–1937 |journal=Economics & Human Biology |title-url=https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X02000023 |archiveurl=https://wp.me/pa7b25-1i |archivedate=30/July/2018 |location=Germany |publisher=Elsevier Science B.V. |year=2003 |volume=1 |issue=1 |page=1–28|doi=10.1016|oclc=}}</ref>}}

These problems were the direct result of their capitalist policy:

{{quote|The reason for this adverse development was caused by the fact that military expenditures increased at the expense of public health measures. In addition, food imports were curtailed, and prices of many agricultural products were controlled. There is ample evidence that this set of economic policies had an adverse effect on the health and nutritional status of the population.|Andrea Wagner & Jörg Baten|<ref name=Autarchy/>}}

By 1939, living standards were even lower than those of other anticommunist regimes, such as the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|U.K.]] and the [[United States of America|U.S.A.]]

== Ideology ==
<blockquote>
{{quote|It is […] entirely appropriate to register the point that, despite the [[Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact|Nazi–Soviet pact]], and indeed other instances of his opportunistic use of anti-Bolshevism to achieve short-term goals, Hitler remained committed from the early 1920s until his downfall in 1945 to the pursuit and destruction of Bolshevism. Even if he may have toyed fleetingly with the idea of accommodating the Soviet Union as a partner in Ribbentrop’s proposed ''Kontinentalblock'' in the hope of finally ending his war with Britain, […] the fact remains that the struggle against Bolshevism constituted a fixed principle, the ‘lodestar’, as Ian Kershaw has put it, of his foreign policy. Indeed, given the intensity of Hitler’s views on the Jewish question, it could hardly have been otherwise from the moment in the early 1920s when he accepted that Bolshevism was an invention and instrument of the Jews, who wished to use it to impose their own tyranny across the globe.|Lorna L. Waddington|<ref name=Waddington>{{safesubst:citation|last=Waddington|first=Lorna|title=The Anti-Komintern and Nazi Anti-Bolshevik Propaganda in the 1930s|journal=Journal of Contemporary History|location=London|publisher=SAGE Publications|volume=42|issue=4|year=2007|page=573–594|ISSN=0022–0094|DOI=10.1177/0022009407081488}}</ref>}}
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The Reich’s eugenics programme was consciously inspired by [[America]]’s own eugenics programmes<ref>{{safesubst:web citation|last=Kaelber|first=Lutz|title=Eugenics: Compulsory Sterilization in 50 American States|url=http://www.uvm.edu/~lkaelber/eugenics|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303104237/http://www.uvm.edu/~lkaelber/eugenics|archivedate=2020-03-03}}</ref> from the 1920s and earlier. The Führer himself once wrote Madison Grant an appreciative letter implying that ''The Passing of the Great Race'' was one of his favorittations, and Fascists regularly communicated with eugenicists from New York to California, who were eager to assist with the Reich’s programme.<ref>{{safesubst:web citation|last=Black|first=Edwin|title=Hitler's debt to America|url=https://amp.theguardian.com/uk/2004/feb/06/race.usa|date=2004-02-05|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315091802/https://amp.theguardian.com/uk/2004/feb/06/race.usa|archivedate=2016-03-15}}</ref> Physically and mentally challenged people thus became early victims of the Third Reich’s violence. Nevertheless, the Fascists made some exceptions for capitalists deemed too useful for disposal, such Artur Adolf Konradi, who was paralysed from the waist below, and Max Hahn, who lost one of his arms in [[WWI]]. Some physicians have also speculated that the Chancellor himself was suffering from Parkinson’s disease at the time of his death.

Generally, the Third Reich held people of color in contempt, with some government officials holding a less intolerant attitude towards certain Asian men, although the Reich nevertheless opportunistically accepted the assistance of many volunteers of color such as the Free Arabian Legion, and despite their own aggressive colonialism, the Fascists frequently exploited the anticolonial sentiments of Arabs<ref name=Hammond>{{safesubst:citation|last=Hammond|first=Kelly|title=Managing Muslims: imperial Japan, Islamic policy, and Axis connections during the Second World War*|journal=Journal of Global History|publisher=Cambridge University Press|volume=12|year=2017|page=251–273|doi=10.1017/S1740022817000079}}</ref> and Indians,<ref name=Bauerkämper>{{safesubst:citation|last=Bauerkämper|first=Arnd|title=Transnational Fascism: Cross-Border Relations between Regimes and Movements in Europe, 1922–1939*|journal=East Central Europe|volume=37|location=Leiden|publisher=Koninklijke Brill|year=2010|page=214–246|DOI=10.1163/187633010X534469}}</ref> probably as a means of pitting their enemies against each other. After the conclusion of the Anti-Comintern Pact of 1936, the Fascists’ white supremacy made an exception for Japanese people, and relaxed attitudes further after the Tripartite Pact of 1940, but some complications remained even after these pacts. For example, intermarriages between Germans and Japanese, while technically legal, remained discouraged, and the few interracial couples in the Reich faced harassment. There were also some European Fascist politicians who never completely trusted the [[Empire of Japan]] either, a feeling which the Imperialists held toward them in turn.<ref>{{safesubst:citation|last=Krebs|first=Gerhard|editors=Rotem Kowner, Walter Demel|chapter=10|chapterurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Tq2CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA217|title=Racism under negotiation: the Japanese race in the Nazi-German perspective|series=Brill’s Series on Modern East Asia in a Global Historical Perspective|title-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Tq2CAAAQBAJ|location=Boston & Leiden|publisher=Brill|year=2015|volume=II|page=217–241|DOI=10.1163/9789004292932_011|ISBN=978-90-04-29293-2|ISSN=2212-1730}}</ref> Despite the wavering attitudes and the want of consensus, Japanese men were the people of color for whom the Fascists had the most tolerance. There were likely about five hundred Japanese people living in Berlin during the early 1940s, a number comparable to that of the Germans living in the Empire of Japan, and many Japanese in the Reich worked as diplomats, military officers, students, and trading company employees.<ref>{{safesubst:citation|last=Kudō|first=Akira|editor=J.A.A. Stockwin|chapter=1|title=Japanese-German Business Relations: Co-operation and Rivalry in the Interwar Period|title-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W00qBgAAQBAJ|location=London|publisher=Routledge|year=1998|year_published=2001|page=31|ISBN=0-203-01851-6}}</ref>

=== Anti-Semitism ===
''Main Article: [[Anti-semitism in Nazi Germany]]''

One crucial part of German Fascism was antisemitism; only a tiny minority of German Fascists (e.g. Karl Plagge, Oskar Schindler) secretly dissented from this view. Traditionally, antisemitism in German society referenced Jewish culture as its basis, but capitalists such as Henry Ford<ref>{{safesubst:web citation|title=Mein Kampf : Nazi Germany|url=http://spartacus-educational.com/GERmein.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140515020345/http://spartacus-educational.com/GERmein.htm|archivedate=2014-05-15}}</ref><ref>{{safesubst:citation|last=Ryback|first=Timothy|chapter=three|title=Hitler’s Private Library|title-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VZY6CB_9IGAC|date=2008-10-21|location=|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|page=69|ISBN=978-1-4000-4204-3}}</ref><ref>{{safesubst:web citation|last=Dobbs|first=Michael|title=Ford and GM Scrutinized for Alleged Nazi Collaboration|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/nazicars30.htm|date=1998-11-30|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090605012002/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/nazicars30.htm|archivedate=2009-06-05}}</ref><ref>{{safesubst:web citation|last=Sartore|first=Melissa|title=How Henry Ford Helped The Nazis As Much As He Possibly Could|url=https://www.ranker.com/list/relationship-between-henry-ford-and-nazis/melissa-sartore|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831125043/http://www.ranker.com/list/relationship-between-henry-ford-and-nazis/melissa-sartore|archivedate=2017-08-31}}</ref> introduced a more ‘racial’ justification for this phenomenon, claiming that Jews were innately rather than just socially or religiously inferior.<ref>{{safesubst:citation|last1=Pool|first1=James|last2=Pool|first2=Suzanne|chapter=3|title=Who Financed Hitler|location=U.S.A.|year=1997|title-url=https://archive.org/stream/WhoFinancedHitler|page=91|ISBN=0-8037-8941-6}}</ref> In reality, however, the Fascists were committing antisemitism as a means of preserving most of the petite-bourgeoisie: concentrating capitalism’s horrible economic pressure on only a minor segment of the class rather than its entirety.<ref>{{safesubst:citation|title=Bordiga’s “Auschwitz, or the Great Alibi”|journal=Programme Communiste|title-url=https://www.Marxists.org/subject/jewish/bordiga/auschwitz.htm#a3|number=11|trans=Mitchell Abidor}}</ref>

Violence against Jews was common in Third Reich during the 1930s, but massacres were comparatively rare until the 1940s. Suicide, normally considered an act of cowardice (though preferable to surrender) in the German Reich,<ref>{{safesubst:citation|author=Christian Goeschel|title=Suicide in Nazi Germany|chapter=Suicide under the Swastika, 1933–1939|publisher=Oxford University Press Inc.|year=2009|page=61|isbn=978-0-19-953256-8}}</ref> was destigmatized for Jews. The Jewish suicide rate increased significantly with the beginning of the Third Reich, largely owing to its racial policies, and sometimes the Fascists explicitly encouraged Jews to commit suicide. For example, after a Jewish shopkeeper and his family took their own lives in Vienna, storm troopers plastered his shop windows with placards saying ‘Please imitate’. Even so, the Fascists officially denied any responsibility for Jewish suicides.<ref>{{safesubst:citation|author=Christian Goeschel|title=Suicide in Nazi Germany|chapter=Suicides of German Jews, 1933–1945|publisher=Oxford University Press Inc.|year=2009|page=96–105|isbn=978-0-19-953256-8}}</ref> From 1941 onward, Fascists no longer intentionally encourage the practice, and the SS castigated suicide attempts, probably because they were expressions of self-determination, but suicide among Jews remained substantial regardless.<ref>{{safesubst:citation|author=Christian Goeschel|title=Suicide in Nazi Germany|chapter=Suicides of German Jews, 1933–1945|publisher=Oxford University Press Inc.|year=2009|page=107–115|isbn=978-0-19-953256-8}}</ref>

As well, Fascist antisemitism sometimes spread to regions where it had previously been very rare. For the 1920s and most of the 1930s, Italian Fascists tolerated Jews, and sometimes even complained that German Fascism was too antisemitic, but by 1938 the Kingdom of Italy officially adopted antisemitism due to the overwhelming popularity of the German Reich.<ref name=Bauerkämper/> Antisemitism had been nonexistent in East Asia due to the sheer rarity of Jews there, but as a consequence of the German Reich’s popularity in the Empire of Japan during the 1930s, a minority of Imperialists adopted the antisemitism of their European partners, and in the 1940s the Imperialists implemented some antisemitic policies as part of the inter-Axis Indian Ocean cooperation. At the request of the Western Axis, the Imperialists arrested and incarcerated hundreds of Jews throughout Southeast Asia, and Imperial propagandists would sometimes campaign against ‘Jewish world control’ during 1943 in an attempt to distract local Muslims. Imperial authorities also forcibly relocated 20,000 Shanghai Jews into a ghetto, though they did ignore several thousand other Jews there, mainly ones of either Middle Eastern or Soviet origin.<ref name=Kowner2017>{{safesubst:citation|en|last=Kowner|first=Rotem|title=When economics, strategy, and racial ideology meet: inter-Axis connections in the wartime Indian Ocean*|journal=Journal of Global History|publisher=Cambridge University Press|volume=12|issue=2|date=2017-06-08|page=228–250|doi=10.1017/S1740022817000067}}</ref> The majority of the Empire of Japan still found antisemitism incomprehensible, however, and applied actions such as these only sporadically. Fascist antisemitism also contaminated the Arab world, made the anti-Jewish sentiment there much more aggressive, and influenced Arab ultranationalist discourse, even decades after 1945.<ref name=Hammond/>

===Military Ideology===
The Fascist state’s ideology also manifested itself in its military policies.

==Culture==
The Fascists coined the locution ‘[[cultural Bolshevism]]’ to disparage cultural phenomena that they deemed worthy of purging, such as jazz. The Fascist state subjected abstractionist artwork to ridicule and favored genres that were less unrealistic. In 1941, the bourgeois state prohibited Fraktur under the official excuse that it consisted of ‘Jewish characters’.<ref>{{safesubst:citation|last=Reuveni|first=Gideon|chapter=IV|title=Reading Germany: Literature and Consumer Culture in Germany before 1933|title-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4KNdCjZ4OZgC|location=New York|publisher=Berghahn Books|year=2006|page=206|trans=Ruth Morris|ISBN=1-84545-087-6}}</ref> The Fascists also paid special attention to children, marketing to them explicitly anti-Semitic books such as ''Trust No Fox on his Green Heath and No Jew on his Oath'', and also marketed playthings that glorified the military, such as tanks and Fascist figurines, but ceased production of certain ones if they were based on somebody that the bourgeois state just executed. They once marketed an expensive bridge playset, but it sold poorly in part because it wasn’t a militarily specific piece.<ref>{{safesubst:web citation|last=Leatherdale|first=Duncan|title=Nazi toys expected to raise thousands at Thornaby auction|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tees-31991001|date=2015-03-25|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150327191128/http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tees-31991001|archivedate=2015-03-27}}</ref>

===Religion===
The Fascists invented a culturally specific variant of Christianity called Positive Christianity, which sought to unify the local Catholic and Protestant churches. It taught that Jesus Christ was an Aryan rather than a Jew, and was himself fighting against the Jews.<ref>{{safesubst:web citation|last=Springer|first=Karl|title=Onward! Humor from the Period of Struggle of the National Socialist Movement|url=https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/springer.htm|location=Munich|publisher=Zentralverlag der NSDAP|year=1939|trans=Randall Bytwerk}}</ref> This variant had little in common with mainstream Christianity, received the condemnation of Christian authorities elsewhere in the world, and was abandoned by the end of the Reich.

===Gun Control===
The Weimar Republic passed very stringent gun laws that essentially banned all gun ownership in an attempt to stabilize the country and comply with the Treaty of Versailles, with a law in 1928 undoing some of this by creating a permit system. Most men and many women still owned weapons from during or before the first World War though and this new law was applied quite rarely, mostly when newly-bought weapons became registered. The Fascists used these records to confiscate guns from their enemies, but because they only covered a few of the weapons in circulation, many Jewish people and others managed to stash away weapons into the late 1930s. In 1938 the Fascists adopted the German Weapons Act, which reduced gun restrictions to just handguns, extended permits from one year to three, and lowered the legal age of purchase from 20 years to 18. Many categories of people were further no longer subject to gun ownership restrictions, such as holders of annual hunting permits, government workers, and NSDAP members. On 11 November of that same year though, the Regulations Against Jews’ Possession of Weapons was issued, banning all Jews in the Reich from owning any kind of weapon. Jewish homes were already being raided by the Fascists however, and as the Anti-Defamation League [https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/adl-says-nazi-analogies-have-no-place-in-gun-control-debate explained in 2013], the small amount of Jews could in no way have stopped the power of the Fascist state.

In current gun control discussions a reference to the disarmament of the Fascists’ victims is often made as an argument for loose firearm regulations, in spite of the facts of the actual situation, with the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising also being brought up. As for that case, 7,000 Jews died and 50,000 were sent to concentration camps whereas German losses as estimated to be from under 20 to several hundred — at any rate an overwhelming defeat for the armed civilians, who lacked tremendous amounts of almost every aspect that actually took the Allies to defeat the Third Reich.<ref>[https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/apr/08/viral-image/no-gun-control-regulation-nazi-germany-did-not-hel/ No, gun control regulation in Nazi Germany did not help advance the Holocaust]. ''PolitiFact''.</ref>

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Jack Lang

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{{Infobox politician|honorific prefix=The Honourable|name=Jack Thomas Lang|birth_date=21 December 1876|birth_place=[[Brickfield Hill]], [[Colony of New South Wales]], [[British Empire]]|death_date=27 September 1975|death_place=[[Auburn, New South Wales]], [[Australia]]|political_line=[[Australian labour movement]] [[Social democracy]] [[Anti-communism]]|nationality=[[Australia|Australian]]}}

'''Jack Thomas Lang''' was an [[Anti-communism|anti-communist]] yet still somewhat [[Progressivism|progressive]] politician in [[Australia]] from the 1920s to the 1940s who was a member of the [[Australian Labor Party]] (ALP). He accomplished several things during his leadership of [[New South Wales]] (NSW) such as improving infrastructure, increased social programs, and somewhat pro-worker policies (including mandatory workers' compensation). He spoke out against [[wage slavery]] and attempted to abolish the undemocratic [[New South Wales Legislative Council]]. He also achieved universal suffrage for all citizens of NSW. His progressive policies almost ended up causing an Australian civil war in the 1930s. He also split from the main ALP several times due to disagreements with the party, creating [[Lang Labor]] and later the [[Australian Labor Party (Non-Communist)]].<ref name=":0">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AXQL4N6v8k Jack Lang: The Australian Who Almost Started a Civil War]</ref>

Lang's [[Authoritarianism|authoritarian]] and non-[[Communism|communist]] yet still progressive actions have caused the man to be compared to [[Huey P. Long]],<ref name=":0" /> an [[United States of America|American]] politician who used several somewhat [[Socialism|socialist]] policies during his tenure as the [[Governor of Louisiana]] as a "defense against socialism".<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMUx4AQl5tI Huey Long: The Dictator of Louisiana]</ref>

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Huey P. Long

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{{Quote|I'm for the poor man — all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' — that's my slogan.|Huey P. Long|[[T. Harry Williams]], Huey Long|p. 706}}{{Infobox politician|name=Huey Pierce Long Jr.|honorific prefix=The Kingfish|birth_date=August 30, 1893|birth_place=[[Winnfield, Louisiana]], [[United States of America]]|death_place=[[Baton Rouge, Louisiana]], [[United States of America]]|death_date=September 10, 1935|death_cause=[[Assassination of Huey Long|Assassination]]|nationality=[[United States of America|American]]|political_line=[[Longism]] [[Bonapartism]] (reportedly) [[Communism]] (allegedly) [[Fascism]] (allegedly)}}

'''Huey Pierce Long Jr.''' nicknamed "'''the Kingfish'''," was an [[United States of America|American]] politician who served as the 40th [[governor of Louisiana]] from 1928 to 1932 until his [[Assassination of Huey Long|assassination]] in 1935. He was a [[Populism|populist]] member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] and rose to prominence during the [[Great Depression]] for his criticism of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|FDR]]'s [[New Deal]] policies which he saw as insufficiently radical.

The [[Bourgeois media|bourgeois press]] and historians have attacked his legacy for his defense of the common man against the [[Capitalism|capitalist]] order, so much so that accusations of "[[fascism]]" have been waged against him. These accusations are easily debunked when considering his positive relationship with the Black community, so much so that [[Huey P. Newton]] of the [[Black Panther Party]] was named after Huey Long.<ref>{{News citation|date=2019-01-28|title=Biography of Huey Newton, Co-Founder of the Black Panthers|url=https://www.thoughtco.com/huey-newton-biography-4579802}}</ref> His positive relations to the Black community included his night literary classes that taught uneducated Black people how to read.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMUx4AQl5tI Huey Long: The Dictator of Louisiana]</ref>

== See also ==

* [[Every Man a King]]
* [[Share our Wealth]]

== References ==

Jack Lang

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{{Infobox politician|honorific prefix=The Honourable|name=John Thomas Lang|birth_date=21 December 1876|birth_place=[[Brickfield Hill]], [[Colony of New South Wales]], [[British Empire]]|death_date=27 September 1975|death_place=[[Auburn, New South Wales]], [[Australia]]|political_line=[[Australian labour movement]] [[Social democracy]] [[Anti-communism]]|nationality=[[Australia|Australian]]}}

'''Jack Thomas Lang''' was an [[Anti-communism|anti-communist]] yet still somewhat [[Progressivism|progressive]] politician in [[Australia]] from the 1920s to the 1940s who was a member of the [[Australian Labor Party]] (ALP). He accomplished several things during his leadership of [[New South Wales]] (NSW) such as improving infrastructure, increased social programs, and somewhat pro-worker policies (including mandatory workers' compensation). He spoke out against [[wage slavery]] and attempted to abolish the undemocratic [[New South Wales Legislative Council]]. He also achieved universal suffrage for all citizens of NSW. His progressive policies almost ended up causing an Australian civil war in the 1930s. He also split from the main ALP several times due to disagreements with the party, creating [[Lang Labor]] and later the [[Australian Labor Party (Non-Communist)]].<ref name=":0">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AXQL4N6v8k Jack Lang: The Australian Who Almost Started a Civil War]</ref>

Lang's [[Authoritarianism|authoritarian]] and non-[[Communism|communist]] yet still progressive actions have caused the man to be compared to [[Huey P. Long]],<ref name=":0" /> an [[United States of America|American]] politician who used several somewhat [[Socialism|socialist]] policies during his tenure as the [[Governor of Louisiana]] as a "defense against socialism".<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMUx4AQl5tI Huey Long: The Dictator of Louisiana]</ref>

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Jack Lang

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'''Jack Thomas Lang''' was an [[Anti-communism|anti-communist]] yet still somewhat [[Progressivism|progressive]] politician in [[Australia]] from the 1920s to the 1940s who was a member of the [[Australian Labor Party]] (ALP). He accomplished several things during his leadership of [[New South Wales]] (NSW) such as improving infrastructure, increased social programs, and somewhat pro-worker policies (including mandatory workers' compensation). He spoke out against [[wage slavery]] and attempted to abolish the undemocratic [[New South Wales Legislative Council]]. He also achieved universal suffrage for all citizens of NSW. His progressive policies almost ended up causing an Australian civil war in the 1930s. He also split from the main ALP several times due to disagreements with the party, creating [[Lang Labor]] and later the [[Australian Labor Party (Non-Communist)]].<ref name=":0">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AXQL4N6v8k Jack Lang: The Australian Who Almost Started a Civil War]</ref>

Lang's [[Authoritarianism|authoritarian]] and non-[[Communism|communist]] yet still progressive actions have caused the man to be compared to [[Huey P. Long]],<ref name=":0" /> an [[United States of America|American]] politician who used several somewhat [[Socialism|socialist]] policies during his tenure as the [[Governor of Louisiana]] as a "defense against socialism".<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMUx4AQl5tI Huey Long: The Dictator of Louisiana]</ref>

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