Response to CanYouFlyBobby, 12 May 2012 10:23PM
Hitler certainly did have support from the Capitalists
Really? Are you sure 'some capitalists' is not more accurate, or just 'capitalists'.
But all of them? Who is overegging?
well, no, not all the capitalists. Just the most important ones. Like the Deutsche Bank (which was and remaind private throughout the war), Thyssen, Krupp, the Quandt family, who had massive investments in the armaments industry, and Allianz insurance, who calmly made five million Deutschmarks available to Hitler in 1931 -- even Hitler was surprised, according to the diary of Otto Wagener, his finance adviser.
according to a very conservative estimate, in 1931 about half of the German companies listed on the stock exchange (by value, one in seven by number) had strong links to the Nazi party -- in other words, the biggest companies were backing the Nazis. And they were well rewarded.
[but were they backing the NSDAP before its success or after it? The important point is that those who claim Hitler or his party were the product or tool of big business or capitalists are wrong.]
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