... in the 1930s, wealthy Germans who saw the Nazi party as a “battering ram” against trade unions and socialists were persuaded to overlook Hitler’s antisemitism because it allowed the market system to flourish."
... a lot of German elites said to themselves: we’re quite happy funding Hitler because his street fighters will help crush the trade unions, so that we can make more profits.”
@antipode77@bookstodon “The Nazis are just a gang of stupid hooligans, but they do serve a purpose. Let them get rid of the communists, later we’ll be able to control them.” - Baron Maximilian von Heune, in the film CABARET