Hitler WASN’T funded into power by the capitalists

Marxist-influenced historians and the supporters of totalitarian central planning have often repeated the conspiracy theory that Hitler was funded into power by a secret cabal of capitalists. Their "evidence" for this nonsense is dubious at best, and despite the fact that historian Henry Ashby Turner exposed the lie in 1985, and despite the fact that the majority of historians now begruggingly accept the facts, "socialists" are still pushing this narrative, as is Wikipedia. So today, we're going to look at the "evidence" and see exactly why the Marxist narrative is wrong once again.

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📚 BIBLIOGRAPHY / SOURCES 📚

Citations are listed at the bottom of the video as I speak.

Barkai, A. “Nazi Economics: Ideology, Theory, and Policy.” Yale University Press, 1990.
Bel, G. “Against the Mainstream: Nazi privatization in 1930s Germany.” PDF Universitat de Barcelona.
Evans, R. “The Coming of the Third Reich.” Penguin Books, Kindle 2004.
Evans, R. “The Third Reich in Power, 1933 - 1939.” Penguin Books, Kindle 2006.
James, H. “The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank.” Cambridge University Press 2004.
Jeffreys, D. “Hell’s Cartel: IG Farben and the making of Hitler’s War Machine.” Metropolitan Books 2008. eISBN 9781466833296
Marx, K. & Engels, F. "Manifesto of the Communist Party." PDF 1969, original 1848.
Shirer, W. “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.” Pan Books, 1964.
Turner, H. “German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler.” Oxford University Press 1985.

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ABOUT TIK 📝

History isn’t as boring as some people think, and my goal is to get people talking about it. I also want to dispel the myths and distortions that ruin our perception of the past by asking a simple question - “But is this really the case?”. I have a 2:1 Degree in History and a passion for early 20th Century conflicts (mainly WW2). I’m therefore approaching this like I would an academic essay. Lots of sources, quotes, references and so on. Only the truth will do.

[MichaelMyers]

Hitler hated Capitalism, a LOT. I always find it strange when people bash Capitalism with the ignorant line: "Hitler was a Capitalist" 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

[_Dovar_]

"I decide who is a capitalist."
- a redditor

[Philistine]

"Hitler must have been a capitalist because Stalin-era Soviet propaganda said so (eventually, after Hitler broke the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact), and of course Stalinists would never lie!"
- William Shirer, probably

[AOT_HxH]

Regarding Wikipedia rewriting history, a perfect example of their agenda pushing is what happened to the Cultural Marxism article.

[CB-vtmx]

As one of my profs said in 1981, "no lie in history is greater than the lies told about the WW2 era". As we went through that era in his class, he constantly emphasized that almost nothing in any historical reference could withstand actual scrutiny against primary sources. Now, this was long before a lot of primary information became available from Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy, and indeed, even the US and UK.

Over the years, reading many history texts on the period 1930-1945, I agree completely that almost everything written prior to the mid 1980s is shyte and 95% since then is shyte.

[Mark-fwpd]

I greatly appreciate TIK for always including his sources. Do not just take someone's 'word', check your understanding and check their sources. Great job TIK.

[robertthecag]

I had to stop reading "The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy" after he wrote that AF had collectivized all farming and hired 11 thousand bureaucrats to monitor them. And called it right wing.

[issintf]

Please continue the wiemar bank series. Too many historians ignore "banks" for "tanks" and it has left a massive blind spot in the public eye. Thanks for the videos, and have a good day

[Alte.Kameraden]

Fun Fact I had fun with the other day. Youtube recommended me a clip from a TV show which I didn't prior know about where HItler Youth were singing/dancing to the Party's Anthem. Well I had the keen observation to actually read the translation of the lyrics while they were singing and just smiled when I say it say "Reactionary Forces." So I couldn't resist but make the joke "Yep you definitely know they're socialist when they refer to the Conservatives who opposed them as Reactionary Forces." You can imagine the kind of replies I got as a result. But yet it's even in the Party's Anthem.

[markmusser]

Something to consider from Otto Dietrich himself apparently ignored or not noticed by Shirer and so many others, "Hitler never allowed financial considerations to affect his decisions. The industrial barons did not buy him and bend him to their will. Far from it. On the contrary, he slowly but surely imposed his will upon business. He fitted business into a planned economy and placed it under absolute government control which in the long run could only smother all economic initiative and which culminated in a total war economy." With regard to capitalism on the same page, Dietrich then wrote, "That in its course of evolution society had outgrown the traditional form of autonomous, private capitalism, and that reason demanded a new and more functional economic order, in other words, a planned economy.” This is from his book, "The Hitler I Knew." Not everything Dietrich says is wrong. This is right on target since it is so consistent with what is already known about National Socialism when the lens of political ideology is removed.

[kerbecks]

It's a good day when TIK uploads.

[cas]

I felt a great disturbance in the dialectic, as if millions of leftists suddenly cried out in incoherent screeching and were suddenly silenced

[aurei]

I remember growing up & through school & in online spaces you'd be laughed off for using wikipedia, then suddenly everyone was taking that Alphabet run site as gospel. I have no idea what happened, but we're fked.

[KatanamasterV]

You asked to hear from reasonably sane people and as a Rothbardian I don't know if I'm sane but I don't think I'm crazy.

The most interesting thing, at least to me, in discussions with people about the transitions of Western Civilization Circa mid-20th century is the absolute scramble that they undergo in trying to discuss the concept of private property. Specifically in relation to the German iteration of the mid-twentieth century if they don't like what happened there in Germany had perfect private property laws in spite of the fact that anything you had up to and including your life could be confiscated at any time and if the person being discussed with liked what happened there then there was no violation of private property because any activity undertaken with State approval is not a violation of private property. Absolutely astounding mental gymnastics, 10 out of 10 scorers for some of these folks.

[creeperboy]

Can't wait for the typical tankies coping in the comments, not watching the video and just saying: "Uuuh, that's wrong" because dismantling their perception of fascism is also dismantling parts of their own ideology.

[Coconutscott]

Never ever use Wikipedia as a source of political or ideological history. All it's good for is checking dates.

[gagamba]

Those who do not have Turner's book but want to get a good sample of it, he wrote a paper in 1969 titled 'Big Business and the Rise of Hitler' published by the _The American Historical Review_ . It's available to read for free at jstor.

Another good read there is Turner's review of _IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation_ by Edwin Black published in 2001. He documents Black's errors, distortions, and over-eggs. Turner concludes: 'Despite defects that render it all but worthless as an historical study, Black's book must be regarded as a success. Launched by a lavish advertising campaign and released simultaneously with an announcement of a class action suit against IBM on behalf of Holocaust survivors, it quickly became a bestseller in both the United States and Germany. Business is, after all, still business.'

[anthonychase]

Thanks for this analysis. My father was a WW2 British soldier. I am over 70 years old and have a lifelong and genuine interest in our history. Your perspective is heartening for me because it echoes my father's discomfort with the ubiquitous and oft stated orthodoxie about how the nasty capitalists bank- rolled Hitler. My father never accepted this. Having studied post WW2 history, I would repeat this mantra to my father and he just wouldn't accept it. Of course, i now understand that this Marxist driven thesis, which permeated post war academia was profoundly flawed and is now exposed as a fraud. It raises a far more interesting question: if Hitler and his movement were really communists, what were the Nazis doing fighting the Communists in Russia? I don't know the answer, but here's the begging of a possible explanation. Remember that Hitler hated the German military elites, and he deeply mistrusted the Prussian military class. I suggest that Hitler became a means by which the German state avoided an otherwise inevitable civil war in Germany. Just a few thoughts and grateful, for your work.

[hellequingentlemanbastard]

The oldest brother of my grandfather was a German Communist, he was over 20 years older than my grandfather.
He had to flee at first Germany and went to the Soviet Union, apparently he was a friend of Nikita Khrushchev.
In the Soviet Union he then fell foul of Stalin and had to flee again.
He ended up in Canada, but came back to Germany after the War.
Since he had no children he wanted to adopt my dad as a heir to his Wealth if my dad would join the Communist Party.
My dad was at that time engaged to my mum, and she told my dad if he joins the communists then the wedding is off.
After my great-uncles death in the late sixties, everything he owned went to the German Communist Party.
I always thought that my dad should have joined, get the Inheritance and then drop the communists afterwards.
Showed me that these communists are only in this for themselves in the end, just like the Feudal Lords before.

[BurghezulDjentilom]

I can't believe this is a video that needed to be made. People are so beated down by propaganda it's stunning. Thanks for it though, TIK - always a pleasure !