The 1940 Field Marshal Ceremony refers to a promotion ceremony held at the Kroll Opera House in Berlin in which Adolf Hitler promoted twelve generals to the rank of Generalfeldmarschall (“field marshal“) on 19 July 1940. It was the first occasion in World War II that Hitler appointed field marshals due to military achievements.
The prestigious rank of field marshal had been banned after the First World War. As part of German re-armament, the rank was revived. Hitler promoted twelve selected generals to field marshal during the ceremony in Berlin for their role in the swift victory in the Battle of France and to raise morale. The ceremony highlighted the power and prestige of the Wehrmacht; France was considered to have had the strongest army in Europe, yet had been humiliatingly defeated in just six weeks. The ceremony was the first time Hitler appointed field marshals due to military achievements and was celebrated like no other promotion ceremony of the war.
Field marshal
A decorated baton became the trademark of a German field marshal.
After World War I, the prestigious rank of field marshal was banned in the Weimar Republic, alongside other restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles. After Hitler and the NS Party came to national power in January 1933, they began an expansion of the military; it was part of Hitler’s desire to restore the army’s power and prestige. In 1936, he revived the rank of field marshal. It was the highest and most prestigious military rank in Germany, originally only for the use of the Minister of War and Commander-in-Chief of the Army. The traditional attribute distinguishing a German field marshal was an ornately decorated baton. More tangible benefits included a yearly salary of 36,000 Reichsmarks for life (a Field Marshal was considered to ever remain on active duty) and all earnings being exempt from income tax.
Ceremony
Flushed with enthusiasm by the swift defeat of the French army, considered to have been the strongest in Europe, and the Low Countries in June 1940, Hitler wanted to mark the occasion with a grand promotion ceremony. He also hoped the promotions would strengthen his influence over the traditional German General Staff. The twelve generals chosen for promotion, who all had played an important role in the victory, were (with the position they occupied during the Battle of France):
- Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch, Commander-in-chief of the Army
- Colonel General Fedor von Bock, Commander of Army Group B
- General of the Aviators Albert Kesselring, Commander of Air Fleet 2
- Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of Staff of Hitler’s Armed Forces High Command and de facto Minister for War
- Colonel General Günther von Kluge, Commander of the 4th Army
- Colonel General Wilhelm von Leeb, Commander of Army Group C
- Colonel General Wilhelm List, Commander of the 12th Army
- Colonel General Erhard Milch, Chief Under-Secretary of State in the Reich Aviation Ministry (de facto Air Force High Command)
- Colonel General Walther von Reichenau, Commander of the 6th Army
- Colonel General Gerd von Rundstedt, Commander of Army Group A
- General of the Aviators Hugo Sperrle, Commander of Air Fleet 3
- Colonel General Erwin von Witzleben, Commander of the 1st Army
In particular, all Army Group commanders were promoted Field Marshal. In the case of Kesselring and Sperrle, the rank of Colonel General was bypassed. The commanders-in-chief of Navy and Air Force, Erich Raeder and Hermann Göring respectively, were not promoted Field Marshals because they already held the rank (or its equivalent Grand Admiral respectively). Given that Field Marshal was no longer an as exceptional rank as it was before, Göring, however, to satisfy his thirst for prestige, was promoted to the specially created rank of Reich Marshal. This made made Göring the senior officer of the military, without, however, making him an actual superior of Army and Navy. It was the only award of this rank during the era, and it was abolished after the fall of the regime.
On 19 July 1940, Hitler summoned the generals to a ceremony in Berlin’s Kroll Opera House (which housed the Reichstag after the Reichstag fire). After a speech regarding a peace proposal directed at Britain, Hitler personally rewarded his generals with their expensively decorated batons, and thanked them for their contributions to the victory.
The 1940 Field Marshal Ceremony was the first occasion Hitler appointed field marshals due to military achievements and was celebrated like no other promotion ceremony in Germany. The remaining five years of the war saw an additional twelve promotions, most of which were without ceremony, such as Friedrich Paulus‘s promotion, which was conferred over the radio by Hitler.
Aftermath
All of the generals promoted went on to achieve further success in their careers during the early years of victory which the German military obtained in the Second World War. Brauchitsch, Bock, Kesselring, Keitel, Leeb, List, Reichenau, Rundstedt, and Göring would all play decisive and important roles in the German-led Axis invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. Sperrle spent the rest of the war in semi-retirement, based with his unit in France. Milch was transferred to the production department and was responsible for aircraft production until the end of the war. In 1943, after a series of German defeats on the Eastern Front, and the Allied invasion of Italy, the German military lost all initiative. Hitler’s leadership became increasingly disconnected from reality as the war turned against Germany, with the military’s defensive strategies often hindered by his slow decision making and frequent directives to hold untenable positions. His response to the worsening war situation was to unceremoniously sack general after general, a routine which ultimately affected the field marshals promoted at the ceremony. Erwin von Witzleben and Günther von Kluge were both involved in the 20 July Plot to assassinate Hitler. After it became clear that the assassination attempt had failed, Kluge committed suicide by taking cyanide poison on 17 August 1944. Witzleben, who was to become Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht if the attempt had succeeded, was arrested and sentenced to death; the execution was carried out on 8 August 1944.
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The Second Happy Time – German U-boats Rampage Only Miles off the US Coast
The Manhattan U-Boat – German Submarine New York City
German Submarines Brought the Fight to Florida during WWII
Wreck of Rare Kriegsmarine B-boat Found near the Coasts of Denmark
The Mysterious Voyage of U-530
German U-Boats in Argentina 1945 – U-977
WWII U-Boats in the West German Navy
Elektroboot Submarines (1935 – 1955)
Submarine FACTS: Why Are Torpedoes Always The Same Size?
German miniature submarines – Normandy 1944
German Frogmen Attack – Nijmegen Bridge 1944
Ice Station Kurt – The Secret German Mission to Canada
Was the Afrika Korps worth it?
The Wehrmacht & 1943 – Defense without Strategy
Why the German Army failed in the West 43-44
Gustav Schwarzenegger: A Real-Life Hero
Adolf Galland – Hitler didnt want to fight against English people
Tiger II in the Battle of the Bulge
German infantry on the Eastern front, winter 1944
About German Attack on Yugoslavia and Greece – Germany finds out how weak its allies really is!
SS Parachute Assault – Yugoslavia 1944
Gerhard Lauck: Joachim Peiper’s Final Struggle against Communism
Top 10 Facts About Joachim “Jochen” Peiper
Kampfgruppe Peiper – Composition Schwere SS-Panzer Abteilung 501.
Malmedy & Chenogne – A Tale of Two Ardennes Massacres
Ardennes 1944 – The Forgotten First Battle
The Battle of Trois-Ponts 1944 | A bridgehead in the Ardennes
Battlegroup Böhm – The Furthest German Advance West, Ardennes 1944
Tank Battles of WW2 – Coo 1944 | When the ambush got ambushed – Battle of the Bulge.
Tank Battles of WW2 – La Gleize 1944
Battle of Kovel 1944 – ‘Wiking’ Panther company to the rescue | Tank Battles of WW2
Five Successful Missions of a Commando Mastermind, Otto Skorzeny
The Life of Otto Skorzeny, “The Most Dangerous Man in Europe” Before, During and After World War II
Rescuing Mussolini 1943 – Skorzeny’s Forgotten Second Mission
Hitler’s Elite Special Forces | The Brandenburgers (WW2)
The Last German Victory of WW2 – How the Germans Got Their Last Laugh in Greece
Battle of Mount Elbrus – Conquering Europe’s Highest Mountain
SS Diehards 1945 – Renegade SS Attacks on Postwar Allied Occupation Forces
Celebrations in the Life of the SS Family
German Symbols – The Story Behind the Imagery
Know Your History: Weimar Germany (1919-1933)
The Life and Death of Alfred Rosenberg
What Does Alfred Rosenberg’s Diary Say About the Holocaust?
Alfred Rosenberg And The Aryan Soul
Die Glocke – Hitler’s Anti-Gravity Machine?
A PaK 43 Concealed behind a Hedge in France (June, 1944)
8.8cm serving with user nations other than Germany
What “killed” the most tanks in World War 2?
Wehrmacht = German Army? YES or NÖ? #Misconceptions
What you need to know about WWII
German Amazon-Jary-Expedition (1935-1937)
The Lost Story of German Latin Americans Interned During WW2
Ratlines (World War II aftermath)
SS Officer On the Run For 50 years
How Did the Weimar Government Work?
The National Socialist Rule of Law
About National Socialism, Pan-European Nationalism, Waffen SS and Hitler Worshiping.
About Pan-European Nationalism and Waffen SS Worshiping
About Germany’s Non-White Troops
Russia’s Axis Volunteers – Russian Collaboration in World War II: Russians that Fought for Germany
Russian SS – A Brief History of the Kaminski Brigade
Belarusian Collaboration with Germany in World War II (1941 – 1945)
Germany’s Eastern Legions during World War II – Caucasian Volunteers in the German Army.
The Croatian Legion – Croatian Volunteers from the Independent State of Croatia on the Eastern Front
Ante Pavelić – Hitler’s Forgotten Ally
Non-White SS Mutiny – France 1943
Ukrainian SS Mutiny – France 1944
The Chinese Wehrmacht Panzer Commander: Chiang Wei-kuo
Captured Soviet Female Soldiers – How Did the Germans Treat Them?
Dirlewanger Brigade – Himmler’s Convict Legion
Adolf Hitler on the Importance of Racial Preservation
Hitler’s Birthplace: Government Plans to Demolish or Render it Completely Unrecognizable.
Anton Drexler’s Political Awakening
The black boy who grew up in NS Germany
The Human Ability to Ignore the Obvious
The Expulsion and Extermination of Eastern European Germans: An Overview
Ethnic Cleansing of Germans 1945 – 1950
Map: Distribution of German speakers prior to and after 1945.
Map: The German invasion of France 1940
‘Mastering’ Germany’s Difficult Past
Hitler’s Generals in the West German Army
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Prussia
Neues Palais (Potsdam) + Sanssouci Park
Schloss Wilhelmshöhe + Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe
Kurfürstliches Schloss in Koblenz
Prussian Infantry under Frederick the Great
Marienburg MASSACRE – SOVIET CRIMES COVERED UP BY ALLIES
Operation Westwind: Breakout from Königsberg ’45
Why Königsberg held off the first Attack
Chilean and Swedish Military | The Last Remnants of Prussia
The “Other” German Army – Chile’s Prussian Tradition
What on Earth Happened to the Prussians?
The Evacuation of East Prussia – German Refugees in World War II (1944 – 1945)
Civilians fleeing the Red Army, Danzig 1945
Operation Bodysnatch - The Weirdest Monuments Men Mission
Stolen Land – Oder–Neisse line
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Austria
The Sound of Goosestep – Austrians in the Wehrmacht
How did the World React to the Annexation of Austria?
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Denmark in WWII
Political drama in occupied Denmark
Free Corps Denmark – Witness To Soviet War Crimes
Free Corps Denmark – Danes Against Clown World
Free Corps Denmark Recruitment Film
The Danish Volunteers of the Waffen SS
Danish Waffen-SS Volunteers: Free Corps Denmark in World War II
German invasion of Denmark (1940)
German Invasion of Denmark: Every Minute
World First Successfully Paratrooper Attack
The Six Hour War: 1940 German Invasion of Denmark: History Matters (Short Animated Documentary).
Denmark’s collaboration with Germany, during World War II
Danish Germany-workers and Danish industry
A Legacy of Dead German Children
Refugee Camps in Denmark 1944-1949
About the Allied Bombing of Denmark
Panzer Unit Still Serving After German Defeat – Denmark 1945
The British invasion of Denmark and the ‘Stab in the Back’.
The Forgotten (and Flawed) British Invasion of Iceland (Denmark) – Operation Fork (May, 1940)
Madsen: Danish Weapons Manufacturer
Copenhagen’s Reclaimed Land and Why It’s Empty
Aarhus was strategically important for Germany doing WWII
Danish-German sports cooperation, 1940-1945
WWII – Where did the Germans live?
The Soviet Occupation of Bornholm
Rønne Harbour After the Russians Attacked 1945
Danish shipyards worked for the Danish Navy and the German Navy during the occupation 1940-45.
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and National Socialism
An interesting meeting at Plassenburg Castle
20th of July 1941, when the first Danish volunteers arrived in Hamburg
Christian Peder Kryssing was the highest ranked foreigner in Waffen-SS as a SS-Brigadeführer.
Documentary Sheds Light Upon Unrepentant Danish “Nazi Rock Star”
How Hitler decided to launch the largest bike theft in Denmark’s history
The European Volunteer Movement in World War II
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Norway
Norway Divided by Plans of War Memorial Over Germanic SS Soldiers
Norway apologises to its World War Two ‘German girls’
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Sweden
The Swedish Volunteers in the Waffen-SS
The history of Swedish iron and steel industry
Swedes Who fought in Waffen-SS During WWII still receive “Hitler Pensions”
Twilight of the Gods by Thorolf Hillblad Full Audiobook
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Holland
The Allied “Help” during the German Invasion of the Netherlands
The German Occupation of the Netherlands from the Dutch Perspective
Why Dutch Men Fought for Germany at the Eastern Front of World War II
How Dutch Men Were Recruited For the Waffen-ϟϟ in the Netherlands during World War II
How Dutch Waffen-SS Volunteers Were Trained During World War II
The Wiking Division’s Combat History (1941 – 1945) – Dutch Waffen-SS Volunteers on the Eastern Front
The Dutch Volunteer Legion on the Eastern Front – Dutch Waffen-SS Volunteers during World War II
The Dutch That Fought Against the Western Allies in World War II – Landstorm Nederland
The Escape of 7 Former Dutch Waffen-SS Soldiers… and they got away with it (1952)
23rd SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division Nederland
34th SS Volunteer Grenadier Division Landstorm Nederland
34 Dutch Getting Pensions for Service with Waffen-SS (2019)
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Denmark, Norway, Holland & Flanders
Battle of Narva 1944 – Tannenberg line defence and battle of the Blue hills
Foreign Volunteers for the Waffen-SS were Highly Intelligent and Ambitious
Why Dutch Men Fought for Germany at the Eastern Front of World War II
The European Volunteer Movement in World War II
Neutrality and Germanic Effort
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Belgium/Flanders
Flemish Volunteers for Germany during World War II: the Flemish Legion and the Flemish Waffen-SS
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Belgium/Wallonien
Belgian Waffen-SS Volunteers Still Receive Pensions for Loyalty to Adolf Hitler (2019)
Leon Degrelle’s Escape to Spain 1945
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Finland
Russian Invasion of Finland – The Winter War 1939-40
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UK
The British Who Fought with the Germans
The British Free Corps – The Brits That Fought for Germany during World War II
The King, the Thief, and the Spy – A Still Secret WW2 Scandal
Secret Mission to Assassinate Germany’s Panzer Leaders
Food Bombers – Allied Operations Behind German Lines, Netherlands 1945
Did Britain Torture Germans? The London Cage Controversy
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USA
Hürtgen 1944 – America’s Meat Grinder
Ardennes Alamo 1944 – Last Stand at Clervaux Castle
The end of US neutrality? The Lend-Lease Act
Forgotten US Mission to Save 6,000 POWs – Task Force Fetterly 1945
Rapido River Disaster – One of America’s Worst WW2 Defeats
GIs, Souvenir Hunting, and Looting in Germany, 1945
Food Bombers – Allied Operations Behind German Lines, Netherlands 1945
America vs Germany 1941 – The Forgotten Conflict
Operation Paperclip: The US Plan for German Scientists After World War II
The Forgotten American POW – The Only US Servicewoman Captured by the Germans
80 Years After Pearl Harbor, We Now Know the Govt Knew the Attack Was Coming
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Italy
Italian Ardennes Offensive – Operation Winter Storm 1944
Secret Italian Army – D-Day 1944
Mussolini’s Bodyguard Unit – The Duce’s Musketeers
Mussolini’s British Blitz – Italian Raids on England
Without Italy no World War 2? Germany’s dependency on Italy
Italy in WW2 – what went wrong?
What Happened to the Italian Soldiers Abroad After the Armistice of 1943?
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France
The Dark Side of the “Liberation of Europe”
French Soldiers of the German Legion des Voluntaires Unit Holding a French Flag in Russia (1941)
French Volunteers on the Eastern Front and the SS Charlemagne
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Switzerland
Swiss Air Force in World War 2
America’s ‘War’ Against Switzerland
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Japan
Secret Japanese Mission to German-Occupied France
Japanese Awarded Knight’s Crosses
Why the Japanese Navy and Army HATED Each other
How would have WW2 went if the US had not used nuclear bombs on Japan?
The Tokyo Trials – How America Sabotaged Justice in the Far East, 1945-58
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Capitalist democracy is as genocidal as its guardian angel Communism. HUNGER, Oppression, underemployment and the misery inherent in them, abortions and plunder wars are on the agenda of these two disastrous ideologies
These magnanimous words distinguish good from evil”: “By their fruits you will know them. ”Matthew 07:16 (http://www.chuckmaultsby.net/id61.html)
The US, in the 30s, was at the center of the economic depression (http://www.americanyawp.com/text/23-the-great-depression/) and, paradoxically, Germany was very prosperous – honestly (https://www.osentinela.org/conquistas-sociais-e-altas-financas-no-nacional-socialismo)
How the Nazi state overcame the economic crisis ( http://www.zundelsite.org/archive/news_english/0102_barnes.html)
With a whole package of measures, the Hitler government overcame the mental and economic depression
By Roland Wuttke
The debate about “Hartz IV” opens up the view of a unique economic, social and cultural decline as a result of globalization.
With globalization – the complete orientation according to the laws of world trade – the states lose their function as an organizational form of their peoples.
“Weimar” conditions, characterized by mass unemployment and depression, are just around the corner. It is therefore appropriate to understand the measures taken by the Nazi leadership to bring about Germany’s economic and mental upswing after taking over the government on 30 January 1933.
Sebastian Haffner stated: “In January 1933, when Hitler became Reich Chancellor, there were six million unemployed in Germany. Three short years later, in 1936, full employment prevailed. Screaming hardship and mass misery had generally become a modest and comfortable prosperity.
Almost as important: helplessness and hopelessness were replaced by confidence and self-confidence.
And even more wonderfully, the transition from depression to economic boom had been achieved without inflation, with completely stable wages and prices. Not even Ludwig Erhard succeeded in this later. One cannot imagine the grateful astonishment with which the Germans reacted to this miracle and which caused the German working class in particular to switch from the SPD and KPD to Hitler in bright droves after 1933.”
To Haffner’s findings in his book “Notes on Hitler” the statement of another opponent of the Nazi state should be added:
“One may say today about what one wants: Germany was a flourishing, happy country in 1936. On his face lay the radiance of a woman in love. And the Germans were in love -in love with Hitler. (…) And they had every reason to be grateful.
Hitler had defeated unemployment and brought it a new economic flowering. He had given the Germans a new awareness of their national power and their national task,” wrote Sefton Delmer, British chief propagandist during World War II, in his book “The Germans and I.”
The FRG, the regime of the antipodes, has established the Nazi state as a monstrous popanz. This populism is both a strength and a weakness of the FRG. She lives from and with him. It lives from the reconstruction work of the Nazi generation and perishes due to the destructiveness of its counter-proposal.
Their error is the equation of National Socialism with Auschwitz.
A differentiated view of National Socialist policy is virtually impossible in the FRG and is at best reserved for foreigners or scientists in elitist seclusion.
Jörg Haider’s reference at the time to the “proper employment policy” of the Third Reich led to a veritable demonization campaign against the FPÖ politician. Without mentioning Auschwitz, Nazi policy must not be publicly attributed a single positive attribute.
This is not because the occupation construct of the FRG cannot stand a differentiated examination of Nazi ideology. The comparison with those creative forces that brought about a unique upswing in the years after 1933 clearly highlights the inability of today’s political class to take the measures necessary to secure the future of the German people.
How did the National Socialist government manage the rapid upswing? What ultimately characterizes the success of the National Socialist idea?
Departure through reflection on one’s own forces
In the beginning there was the will to reflect on one’s own strengths and strengths, on the achievements of 2,000 years of German history. Opposing forces had to be eliminated and everything had to be geared to the great task of the recovery of the German people. To this end, the völkisch community consciousness was invoked, which opened up those sources of effective socialism without which the enormous tasks would not have been possible.
The idea of the national community, which unites workers, employees, peasants and entrepreneurs, was alien to communism, which as the seal keeper of “genuine” socialism remained in the lowlands of the class struggle and could never achieve the social successes of National Socialism. This still justifies the Hatred of the Reds for the Nazi state, which they like to denounce as a reactionary capitalist system.
Just a few days after Hitler took over the government on 30 January 1933, an “Ordinance for the Protection of the German People” was issued with the announcement of elections on 5 March. The most urgent task was the rescue of the German peasant and the German worker, the preservation of German life rights and the regaining of German freedom.
On February 14, an ordinance on agricultural enforcement protection followed, which saved thousands of farms from ruin by auction. With the “Reichserbhofgesetz” in 1935, the priority of peasant succession and thus the rootedness of peasantry was established. As a result, the land as an essential production factor was taken out of the free play of land speculation and traced back to its actual task as a food production facility. By 1937, with 700,000 hereditary farms, 45 percent of the agricultural land was already bound by the Reichserbhof Act and thus deprived of destruction and indebtedness. At the same time, the Reich Nutrition Act removed food from the speculative game of the stock exchange.
After the NSDAP and the Reichsbund achieved a narrow majority of 52 percent in the Reichstag elections of 5 March, on 23 March 1933 the “Law for remedying the plight of the people and the Reich” was passed with 441 votes to 94, which later went down in history as the “Enabling Act”. In the weeks and months that followed, a whole series of targeted ordinances and symbolic actions brought about a rapid mental upswing:
On April 7, the “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service” was
passed.
May 1 was declared “National Labor Day” and introduced as a non-working holiday. Hitler presented his economic program. In his speech at Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin, he said: “We want to recognize work wherever it is done in the good sense for the being and life of our people. (…) We want the German people to be re-educated by compulsory labour service and to come to the realization that manual work does not harm, that manual work, just like any other activity, is a credit to those who faithfully fulfill it.” Thus, a very deliberate appreciation of even the simplest activities was made.
On 2 May, the German Labour Front, an association of factory cells and trade union groups,was founded.
On 3 May, the Nazi Volkswohlfahrt and the Reichsstände für Handwerk und Handel were founded.
The “Law for the Reduction of Unemployment” of 1 June initiated the construction of the Reichsautobahnen with a job creation programme comprising one billion Reichsmarks.
On 17 June, the German delegation under Dr. Robert Ley left the international labour conference in Genoa “because further participation is not compatible with the changed conception of German honour”.
On 26 June, the “Academy for German Law” initiated the “Purification of German Law from the Foreign Being”.
In the months of June and July, the parties gradually dissolved themselves or were dissolved.
On September 13, the foundation of the Winter Relief Organization was announced.
On October 14, the Reich Government decided to leave the Conference on Disarmament and withdraw from the League of Nations, recognizing that Germany should not be granted equal arms. The people should decide on it in a vote.
On November 12, 40.6 million Germans voted to leave the League of Nations, 2.1 million against. In the simultaneous Reichstag election, the NSDAP (after the dissolution of the competing parties) received 92 percent of the votes.
On November 27, the leisure organization “Kraft durch Freude” (KdF) was founded.
By 30 November, unemployment had already fallen by more than two million to 3.8 million.
Trend-setting social policy
On January 20, 1934, the “Law on the Order of National Work” was promulgated. It regulated labour law (notice periods, duties of care) in an exemplary manner at that time and created a social justice of honour.
On April 1, 1934, a Reich Commissioner for Settlements embarked on a generous job creation program for settlement construction and population policy as part of the Four-Year Plan. In the outskirts of the cities, settlements with small houses and plots of land arose, which were especially reserved for working-class families. Newlywed couples with children received generous ten-year loans to purchase home ownership. At the birth of a child, a quarter of the loan was repaid, so for four children the repayment was waived. By 1937, 1.45 million apartments had been built.
On the grounds that “it is the principle of National Socialism to settle the population in one’s own home and in the great outdoors”, the kilometre allowance was introduced in 1934, which is part of the reform debate under today’s FRG government. The monthly rent for a worker could not exceed 26 Reichsmark (one eighth of the average monthly wage) as required by law.
Employees with higher salaries paid a maximum of 45 Reichsmarks in rent per month. A statutory protection against dismissal, tenants and seizures was introduced. The traditionally financially weak peasantry was particularly supported with the construction of 91,000 farmhouses (until 1936).
Am 15. April 1934 wurde der Reichsarbeitsdienst gegründet, der jungen Menschen, gleich welcher sozialen Herkunft, Land- und Handwerksarbeit vermittelte.
Am 24. Oktober schloß eine Verordnung über die Deutsche Arbeitsfront die Angehörigen der früheren Gewerkschaften, Angestellten- und Unternehmerverbände zu einer Volks- und Leistungsgemeinschaft zusammen: “In ihr findet die Überwindung des Klassenkampfes ihren förmlichen Ausdruck.”
Am 26. November 1936 verordnete der Beauftragte für den Vierjahresplan, Hermann Göring, das Verbot von Preiserhöhungen für alle Bedürfnisse des täglichen Lebens und für landwirtschaftliche, gewerbliche und industrielle Erzeugnisse.
Keine staatliche Verwaltungsapparatur
In contrast to the Soviet Union and also to the USA, it was deliberately refrained from achieving food security through a state administrative apparatus. According to the National Socialist view, “it should not be the task of the state to replace the energy and initiative of millions of self-acting forces with the administration of the state and, for .B, to reduce millions of peasants through an administrative apparatus to recipients of orders without their own determination and energy.”
The undesirable developments of the liberal capitalist system were also evident at this time. As early as 1933, maize was burned in Argentina and the agricultural production area in the USA was forcibly reduced. As later in the EU, 560,000 wagons of grain and five million quintals of meat were destroyed in order to keep prices stable in the liberal capitalist manner. Bread prices rose by 14 percent in Switzerland in 1933-37, by 17 percent in the United States, by 27 percent in England, by 31 percent in France and by 32 percent in Denmark. The price of butter rose by 24 percent in Denmark, by 30 percent in France and by 53 percent in the United States. In Germany, on the other hand, prices for butter and bread remained absolutely stable.
Under Nazi rule, the number of vacation days doubled, and the modern cruise ships of the KdF action (“Cap Arkona”, “Wilhelm Gustloff”, “Robert Ley”) were not allowed to dock in English ports on the instructions of the British, because English workers were not supposed to see what vacation German workers could afford. Popular destinations were therefore Madeira and the Spanish islands and port cities.
Wilhelm Gustloff, built at Blohm & Voss shipyards, Hamburg, by Kraft durch Freude (KdF – Strength for Joy), (https://fliegende-wahrheit.com/2021/07/18/woran-erkennt-man-dass-corona-mit-der-absetzbewegung-zu-tun-hat-teil-10-cyber-polygon-attila-hildman-corona-ausschuss/#comment-5225) a civil organization that promoted cultural and recreational activities, including concerts and other festivities for German workers of all classes, the transatlantic ship German sunk by the Soviets on January 30, 1945, at the end of World War II, with more than 10,500 people on board.
The sinking is considered the largest civil wreck in the world despite being almost totally unknown due to low media coverage. Crowded with refugees trying to escape from East Prussia, in this period Germany had put into practice “Operation Hannibal”, with the aim of removing the civilian population from this area due to the danger of the Soviet advance. The ship is named after the leader of the Swiss NSDAP, who was murdered by a Jew in 1938. SOURCE: https://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Gustloff_(ship)
Even in the war year of 1940, the surcharges for night work, Sundays and public holidays became tax-free, and since 1941 German pensioners were automatically covered by health insurance. Even under the impression of increased war costs, the levying of a wine tax was waived because it would “indirectly also affect the winegrowers, whose economic situation is generally not favourable”.
The economic successes were also achieved through the extraordinary achievements of German scientists and engineers. Here, for example.B. it was possible to produce the artificial rubber from the domestic coal by chemical polymerization, which was produced in the BUNA plants near Merseburg and was more wear-resistant than natural rubber.
The barter trade of the German Reich with countries with weak foreign exchange and the renunciation of the capitalist gold currency and interest rate system was also trend-setting for many poor countries of the world. Bilateral trade agreements on a clearing basis (machines against raw materials) were concluded with 26 countries in South-Eastern Europe and South America, from which the major international banks could not benefit.
Upswing not a consequence of upgrading
The economic upswing was by no means achieved by irresponsible debt-making or by an expansion of armaments, as is often assumed today.
(http://www.jewworldorder.org/nasa-lies/#comment-307351)
In July 1934, Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht introduced the “Mefo-Wechsel” (Mefo = Metallurgical Research Society m.b.H.). From 1934 to 1939, Mefo bills of exchange amounting to 12 billion Reichsmarks were issued. This made it possible to create enormous money to stimulate the economy, which would have led to inflation under normal conditions. For this reason, on 26 November 1936, the general price freeze was also decided to stop wages.
Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht (1877 – 1970), German economist who served as chairman of the German central bank in both Weimar Republic and National Socialist Germany (before 1939). He was also Minister of Economy between 1934 and 1937.
He participated in the “German Resistance” in 1934.
After attempting to kill Hitler on July 20, 1944, he was arrested and sent to different concentration camps. A Mason in disguise, he obtained loans from the Jewish bankers Montagu, Mendelssohn, Wassermann and Warburg. He was also connected to the US bank Morgan Morgan. Hitler knew that it was untrustworthy to the Party’s interests or Germany’s economic ones, but initially he had to play the “game” before overthrowing the transnational oligarchies. Once Hitler assumes power, he forbids Schacht to continue. He told her that he didn’t want Germany to live on loan; “The loans tied up the country, they cut off its sovereignty.”
He was one of the defendants at the International Military Tribunal, but was acquitted. However, he was arrested again and sentenced by a “de-Nazification” court to eight years in a labor camp and was released in 1948.
The legitimate efforts of the Nazi leadership to give the German Reich an adequate defense army are today often denounced as “war armament.” Expenditure on the Wehrmacht and armaments amounted to four percent of national income in 1933/34 and 1934/35 with 1.9 billion Reichsmarks each and only rose to around eight billion Reichsmarks (11 percent) in 1937/38. In 1939, the armed forces of the French and English were about six times stronger than the German Wehrmacht. In September 1939, the Polish army with 1.7 million men was opposed by 75 German divisions with 1.1 million men.
The Nazi leadership enjoyed a high level of trust among the population. In his book “Deutsche Normalbürger 1933-1945” (published by Herbig in 2001), the Frankfurt social psychologist Fritz Süllwald evaluated statements of the experience generation. The impression of being subjected to a reign of terror generally did not prevail. Most citizens felt sufficiently protected by the executive branch in the Nazi state (“The police – your friend and helper”). After taking over the government, Hitler even had the rubber baton abolished by the police, because after the many humiliations in the Weimar system period, no German was allowed to be beaten anymore. The fact that one could walk safely and safely through the streets even at night was highly credited to the government. The idea of the national community was largely a guideline, “common good takes precedence over self-interest” not an empty word, but a practiced principle. The social interaction was characterized by consideration and respect. The youth cult of the National Socialists was not accompanied by a contempt for the elderly.
Ecological and social demands
The Nazi ideology expressed an idealistic worldview that broke out in a multitude of regulations and measures. People and family were considered a natural principle, and there could be no action against the laws of nature. (https://fliegende-wahrheit.com/2017/10/24/adolf-hitler-ein-gewinn-fuer-die-ganze-menschheit/)
National Socialism possessed ecological thinking, as it was “convinced of the divine order of the whole plant and animal world” (Heinrich Himmler). Under Nazi rule, new animal welfare and nature conservation laws were passed, which were largely adopted by the FRG and were considered exemplary for a long time. The nature orientation of the National Socialists is to be exemplified by two statements by Prof. Alwin Seifert, the Reichslandschaftswart of the Reichsautobahnbau, from the book “Im Zeitalter des Lebendigen” (1943).
On the barrenness of the soil, he remarked: “We know that we were not born into this harsh land by chance, but as a necessity, as a destiny. But there is no other way to solve fate than by affirming it. We affirm the land as it was created and want to preserve it exactly as it was. This means nothing else than that in this space man and plant belong together, that salvation and calamity are decided in him and nothing foreign is necessary to complement him.”
On the preservation of the forest, Seifert wrote: “In the new forestry, the measurable and countable is recognized as a mere aid, as something incidental, as a modest part of the whole; here it is recognized and proven that all natural events are based on eternal inexorable laws, that nothing can be done against this will and arbitrariness, and that success in the long run only has him who knows how to fit into them.”
The extent to which the political-social primacy had an effect even in the smallest areas of the economy is shown by the example of a letter dated 24 January 1940 from the head of the economic organisation of the NSDAP district leadership IV of the Vienna district administration to the district administration (municipal administration). There, the head of the organization asked for the quickest information as to whether Dr. Erich Mewald, nominated as managing director of wiener Knäckebrotwerke, is not at the same time authorized signatory of Ankerbrotwerke, and continues: “If this were true, the appointment of the aforementioned as managing director of the Knäckebrotwerke would be rejected on our part on the grounds that it is not acceptable for a comrade of the people to receive a second income in addition to an already high income.”
Family as a primordial unit worthy of protection
The family was regarded as a natural unit worthy of protection. In contrast to communist ideology, which propagated mass collective education in social institutions, the specific role of women as mothers and educators was enhanced. The family received the material and psychological support of the state for raising children. Thus, the Nazi system was far ahead of its time.
As recent findings show, embedding the toddler in an intact family environment is crucial for human development. The destruction of families in the Bolshevik and capitalist states clearly showed and shows their tragic consequences in behavioral disorders and social disorientation of young people.
The idea of the Volksgemeinschaft played a central role in the Nazi state and was able to build on both Germanic sources and the Prussian state ethos. German idealism as a counter-model to capitalist-Bolshevik materialism also created a sense of mission that also radiated to other peoples. As early as 1919, Oswald Spengler described this approach in “Prussia and Socialism”: “We now know what is at stake: not the German fate alone, but the fate of the entire civilization. It is the crucial question not only for Germany, but for the world, and it must be solved in Germany for the world: should trade govern the state or the state trade in the future?”
Why Germanic Values Will Save theWorld
(https://nseuropa.blogspot.com/2017/12/national-socialism-philosophical.html?showComment=1634588877983#c2036633165425946683)
This basic question, which Hitler later dressed in the formula: “the economy has to be there for the people and not the people for the economy”, seems to be answered today in favor of trade. Thus, under the slogan “globalization”, we experience the merciless orientation of all areas of life towards trade, and the state is still paving the way for this activity.
This is where the main difference lies. National Socialism put an end to the corrosive class struggle and left the stamp of its idealistic worldview on the economic system.
A social and völkisch spirit determined the practical politics. Because the community consciousness was pronounced, one could – unlike today – refrain from artificially establishing an order with a multitude of laws and regulations. It was deliberately avoided to touch the ownership structure because property was recognized as a prerequisite for economic driving force. Of course, key industries and public institutions (post, railway, highway) have been subjected to state control in order to prevent private interests from taking over them.
The primacy of politics over the economy was established.
FRG Primacy of the Economic
In the capitalist state of the FRG, on the other hand, the primacy of the economy applies, with all the depressing consequences for the common good. The privatization of public institutions, which are subsequently operated as profit-oriented “profit centers” at the expense of the general public, characterizes the capitalist economic system.
Motorways are now to be privatised in order to collect the users, who are actually the community owners, through “road tolls”.
The Nazi state would never have allowed the rule of private special interests.
The capitalist state, on the other hand, allows the post office, railway, transport companies, waterworks, even hospitals to pass into foreign hands, which, apart from an expectation of returns, have nothing in common with these objects.
Utility companies organize themselves as multinational monopolies and dictate their terms to customers. Politicians react with helpless appeals, which cannot be meant seriously, as at the same time those ministers are allowed to move to lucrative board positions, where they have their stooge services gilded for the anti-social sell-out. Nothing characterizes today’s penetration of the state with greed for profit and private egoisms better than these processes.
According to a statement by the “conservative” Edmund Stoiber, the FRG is defined “not by a national sense of belonging, but by the trust of the citizens in the welfare state”. In the capitalist system, the relationship between citizen and state is characterized by materialistic expectations. This is where the dilemma of this system becomes apparent. When the natural energy resources are plundered, the people and the family are smashed, trust has disappeared, people are brought into line and impoverished, and the profit is only enough for a few, then there are no more binding forces. Then we get an anarchy that will be much more monstrous compared to the French Revolution of 1789. Everyone then gets what they can get.
On the other hand, the idea of the national community has unleashed constructive forces. If the National Community in the Nazi state had not been a reality, the unique achievements of the sons of workers and peasants as soldiers of the German Wehrmacht would have been impossible. Here a word of Schopenhauer has come true: “Whoever gives his life for the fatherland is freed from the deception that limits his existence to his own person.” The binding forces recognized here make up the most valuable qualities of human existence. Without them, there is no future – for any people in the world.
The capitalist regime has no spiritual binding powers apart from the spirit of the shopkeepers’ souls. Therefore, it will break before it has completed its work of destruction. (https://nationalvanguard.org/2019/11/we-fought-on-the-wrong-side/#comment-27638)
If one of them is clearly globalist, internationalist and communist, the other obviously can only be National Socialist
This also puts an end to the mental quarantine that is so oppressive in the FRG. Only after the delegitimization of the system will an open discussion be possible about solutions that must inevitably include the approach of national socialism. (https://www.unz.com/gdurocher/prominent-afro-french-comedian-calls-for-rehabilitation-of-adolf-hitler/#comment-4818945)
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20120211124027/http://www.read-all-about-it.org/archive/wirtschaft/wie_der_ns-staat_ds1204.html
I put you at the center of the world, you are its master – you can decline into the animal or rise to the divine. It all depends on your will
To stop this overwhelming stream of lies, maximum energy is required; only the combined efforts of all patriots to spread the truth will be able to protect them from the parasitic plant that causes the death of the tribe with which it becomes entangled.
(https://vk.com/video/@ulyssespaz?z=video432639774_456239078%2Fpl_432639774_-2)
The One Who Comes Bac When justice is crushed, when evil rules supreme, then I come. For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the evil-doers, for the sake of firmly establishing righteousness, I am born in age after age. Bhagavad-Gita 4.7-8
Source: (https://nationalvanguard.org/2015/08/the-last-man-against-time/)
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