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Historical Title: Hitler Didn’t Outlaw Unions – As a National Socialist, He Went Double-Down On Them Time and time again, the collectivist left in America chooses hyperbole when championing their economy-killing objectives. Most recently, as in the case of the socialist union (yes, they were created by socialists and Marxists) protests in Wisconsin, you see many signs being wielded by the neo-Marxist rubes stating, Hitler banned unions. The purpose of this urban legend-styled disinformation, of course, is a weak attempt to paint Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker as a Nazi, even though the Nazis were national socialists who subscribed to most of the tenets of modern American leftists. What are the roots of this Hitler banned unions urban legend? We have to understand what was going on in Germany at the time. Any economist will tell you, prior to Hitlers rise to power, that the Weimar Republic struggled under severe hyperinflation. The Weimars hyperinflation is required study for every college student wishing to become an economist. What is hyperinflation? Websters defines inflation as, a continuing rise in the general price level usually attributed to an increase in the volume of money and credit relative to available goods and services, and defines hyperinflation as, inflation growing at a very high rate in a very short time. When Hitler came to power, he moved to correct this hyperinflation while keeping his national socialist views front and center. In 1933, the Nazis disbanded the Weimar unions and replaced them with the new and improved union, the German Labor Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront, DAF), which was comprised of 2 primary entities, the National Socialist Factory Organization and the National Socialist Trade and Industry Organization. The labor contracts that were Weimar contracts were now DAF-honored contracts. The Nazis funded the DAFs coffers with the Weimar unions stockpile of wealth (the existing unions were part of that inflation problem). One of the new unions most popular programs was the Strength through Joy (Kraft durch Freude, KdF)) program, which developed the KdF-wagen, that later became the Volkswagen, or Peoples Car. The primary goal of Germanys national socialists was to create a classless society. Hitlers unions were central in this cause. In fact, Hitler gave the unions their long-awaited demand, one that the Weimar unions were never able to pull off, a National Labor Day, May 1, 1933. Bless now our fight for our freedom; the fight we wage for our German people and Fatherland. Adolf Hitlers speech, May Day 1933 The Nazi unions even had this nifty little logo. And heres Hitlers own words from his book, Mein Kampf: I think that I have already answered the first question adequately. In the present state of affairs I am convinced that we cannot possibly dispense with the trades unions. On the contrary, they are among the most important institutions in the economic life of the nation. Not only are they important in the sphere of social policy but also, and even more so, in the national political sphere. For when the great masses of a nation see their vital needs satisfied through a just trade unionist movement the stamina of the whole nation in its struggle for existence will be enormously reinforced thereby. Before everything else, the trades unions are necessary as building stones for the future economic parliament, which will be made up of chambers representing the various professions and occupations. Yet another leftist urban myth busted!
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On May 2nd, 1933, the day after Labor day, Nazi groups occupied union halls and labor leaders were arrested. Trade Unions were outlawed by Adolf Hitler, while collective bargaining and the right to strike was abolished. This was the beginning of a consolidation of power by the fascist regime which systematically wiped out all opposition groups, starting with unions, liberals, socialists, and communists using Himmlers state police.
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