The German economy was devastated by the Treaty of Versailles. The globalist Communist-run unions prevented all efforts to turn things around. The benefits they got helped only themselves and their Communist political agenda in the short-term while harming everyone else, and they still paled in comparison to the benefits workers gained after the National Socialist program was implemented.
Communist allied unions.
No one is more pro-union than I (and I'm well-aware of their historical Communist affiliations). Labor unions exist for the benefit of their members and have no obligation to advocate for any other party. Even so, when unions have a stranglehold on government and/or the economy, it's in no one's long-term best interest. We see essentially that situation in several US states today, where government employee union contracts are bankrupting the states at the expense of the economic and social welfare of everyone else, and of their own members in the long term. The backlash -- companies relocating to more financially stable locations and devastating the lives of workers and their families by doing so, passage of right-to-work (-for-slave-wages) laws that curtail union growth and harm negotiating positions, cuts to social services for all so benefits can be paid, etc. -- hurts all workers, union and non-union, public and private. The situation in Germany was desperate; mass unemployment, starvation, and so on. The unions fought not just for their members but for the internationalist Communist agenda and not for their folk. The NS government, unlike the corporatist governments here and now, acted responsibly and for the good of all regarding labor unions (and everything else).
Aligned with the ruling party isn't state-run. On-board with the state's goals for the benefit of all the German people isn't state-run. Negotiating and working with ownership and government for mutual benefit isn't actively fighting to lower wages. Workers never had is so good as in NS Germany.
Thank you for the link. I'll read it when I have time. The necessary relationship between the NS German government and business was addressed in the first article linked in my post #202.
Neither Communists nor National Socialists have the luxury of unswerving adherence to theoretical principles when attempting to implement far-reaching programs. NS, unlike Marxism in practice, has always been utilitarian in it's approach to economy. Also, we don't see private business, large or small, or private profit as evil or harmful to the folk.. The NS approach is to regulate private industry as needed and, in the limited cases where it's needed, to nationalize industries; this always for the good of the nation as a whole. We oppose unrestrained capitalism and all corporatism; we don't advocate state ownership or totalitarian control of industry. We advocate for the moralization of private property, private business, and private profit; not for their elimination.
Prisoners, many of whom were of the working-class, many of whom worked in the labor camps, starved and succumbed to disease by the hundreds of thousands towards the end of the war in Europe as a result of Allied bombing that prevented food and supplies from reaching the camps.
Millions of Axis and Allied soldiers, most of whom were working-class, died on the battlefields, of course. Many more German and British died in the bombings of civilian targets initiated by Churchill. Many, many more Germans -- more than died during the war -- died AFTER the war in Eisenhower's concentration camps and at the hands of occupying soldiers, mostly the Russians.
And the numbers are still lower than the number of innocents starved and slaughtered by Communist Russia (which Communists claim wasn't communist, even though it was, but was capitalist, even though it wasn't, and even though it began with Lenin and ran through Stalin and continued forward into our own lifetimes).
They didn't teach us about all this in school and it's not widely known but all of it is accurate and documented.
If everyone around here would stop calling everyone with whom they disagree "Nazis" and stop equating modern American Democrat policy and National Socialism with Marxist Socialism and Communism then the only actual "NAZI" and the only actual Communist on the board would stop taking so many threads off on tangents trying to correct the errors.