The Truth about Germany and the World Wars by Terence Smart (recommended reading txt) 📖

have been led to believe. It was achieved through building works such as the railroads, Autobahns, car production and lowering the workforce wages so that businesses could hire them again as the wages had been hiked up by the trade unionists which caused the unemployment in the first place.

Hitler brought laws to Germany which were for the betterment of the German people or you could say ‘a government by the people for the people’.

Housing for the German people received top priority in the Third Reich. During 1933-1937 more than 1,458,179 new houses were built to the highest standards of the time. Each house could not be over two stories high and had to have a small garden for growing flowers or vegetables, as Hitler did not want people to lose contact with the land. The building of apartments was discouraged. Rental payments on housing were not allowed to exceed 1/8 of an average worker's income. Today a 1/3 of a person’s wage is expended on their rent.

Interest-free loans of up to 1’000 RM (Reichsmark) were paid to newly married couples for the purchase of household goods. The loan was repayable at 1% per month, but for each child born, 25% of the loan was cancelled. Thus if a family had four children, the loan would have been considered paid in full. The same principle was applied in respect of home loans, which were issued for a period of ten years at a low rate of interest. The birth of each child also resulted in the cancellation of 25% of the loan up to the fourth child when the loan was cancelled. These interest free loans could also be offered by the western governments of today but they are not because they are under the control of the Rothschild Jewish bankers, the Federal Reserve, Bank of England and the IMF etc.

German farmers also benefited. Between 1933 and 1936 more than 91,000 farmsteads were built in Germany. In 1935 the Farm Inheritance Law was introduced. It ensured that all farms bigger than 15 acres could only be transferred by family inheritance.

All trade unions were united into one organization called Deutsche Arbeitsfront (German Labor Front). Workers' rights were protected by a Tribunal of Social Honor, which laid down conditions of employment. These regulations were superior to any comparable legislation in the world at that time -- and even to this day. As a result of the harmonious relationship between employer and employee, strike action vanished. The taxation of workers, particularly those with families, was sharply reduced.

The Organization Mutter and Kind (Mother and Child) provided for the welfare, health, safety and financial support of expectant mothers and mothers with children. Their needs were provided for at over 30,000 local centers, kindergartens, and nurseries. Kindergeld (child money) was paid to mothers of insufficient means.

Holiday camps were provided at subsidized rates, while sea trips on large cruise ships to foreign destinations were made possible through the Kraft durch Freude (Strength through Joy) program. These voyages were restricted to workers earning more than RM300 a month, with those earning RM200 or less receiving preference. The British Government would not allow these ships to dock in England for fear that their downtrodden workers would learn the truth about working conditions in Germany.

Most Christian denominations were tolerated in Hitler's Germany, and the two main churches, the Evangelical Lutheran and the Roman Catholic were subsidized by the state. On September 10, 1933 Hitler concluded a concordat with the Vatican.

Since churches concentrated on spiritual matters, rather than worldly affairs, worshippers returned in increasing numbers to their church. During the Third Reich 640 new churches were built. It was not uncommon for a pastor or priest to conclude his service with the words "Gott segne den Fuhrer" (God bless the Leader).

Germany was the first country in the world to ban vivisection, or any experimentation on live animals. With its great concern for animal conservation, and human treatment, a complete ban of vivisection was enacted in April 1933 with the Reichstierschutzgesetz (Reich Animal Protection Law).

Hermann Goring stated:

“An absolute and permanent ban on vivisection is not only a necessary law to protect animals and to show sympathy with their pain, but it is also a law for humanity itself…. I have therefore announced the immediate prohibition of vivisection and have made the practice a punishable offense in Prussia. Until such time as punishment is pronounced the culprit shall be lodged in a concentration camp”.

The Reichsnaturschutzgesetz (Reich Law for the Protection of Nature) was promulgated on June 26, 1935. It was one of the most advanced laws of its time and included the Dauerwald (long-term) concept which is still used today for the restoration of forests.

Regarding crime, one of the first acts Hitler undertook was to disarm the police and remove their rubber truncheons. He did this so that the people would feel less threatened and be more sympathetic to the role of the police. At the same time the laws regarding the private ownership of weapons were relaxed. Criminality soon dropped to very low levels, while drug offenses were unknown.

By giving social misfits and criminals jobs, Adolph Hitler was able to reduce the crime rate in Germany. In his 1976 book The Twelve-Year Reich, author R. Grunberger stated that there were significant drops in the rates of murder, robbery, theft, embezzlement and petty larceny during the Hitler years.

Many foreigners were impressed by the improved outlook and health of Germans, including Sir Arnold Wilson, a British M.P. who visited Germany seven times after Hitler came to power.

“Infant mortality has been greatly reduced and is considerably inferior to that in Great Britain,” wrote Wilson. Tuberculosis and other diseases have noticeably diminished. The criminal courts have never had so little to do and the prisons have never had so few occupants. It is a pleasure to observe the physical aptitude of the German youth. Even the poorest persons are better clothed than was formerly the case, and their cheerful faces testify to the psychological improvement that has been wrought within them.”

I don’t think these are the policies of a madmen intent on world domination, do you?

In reality Hitler had created the greatest economic recovery in history were people went from starvation, unemployment and committing suicide to one of optimism, pride, employment, owning cars and going on vacation’s on cruise ships. If you stand this economic achievement against Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s, who took charge of America in 1933 and 5 years later the unemployment rate in America was 18% then Hitler would win by a country mile. But then again Hitler was not constrained by a Jewish banking dynasty that ran the country like Roosevelt was. Hitler was adored by the German people, more than any other Western leader.

"I will not build myself a villa in Switzerland, nor will I lay claim to any fund with which to fight
criminality in this election campaign. Then after four years people shall judge whether the policy of
ruining Germany has come to an end, whether Germany is rising again. I am ready to offer the hand to
anyone even if previously he has misunderstood us if he will now join our Movement. But what we
have won I shall know how to defend against those who for fourteen years have shown that all that
they could do was destroy Germany. I have not taken this office for the sake of personal gain. For
myself I desire nothing. Our purpose will always remain the same, and I am persuaded that this
purpose which nothing can break will one day enable us to break down the distress of Germany." - Adolf Hitler-Stuttgart, 15th February 1933.

Hitler Speech on Community and Altruism

“A new community is being built in Germany, and it is our most beautiful goal and aim. Those who can’t even see past their own nose deserve our pity more than anything else. It is the luck to help, which rewards those who commits themselves to this socialist state, and this commitment must happen every new winter. Our social welfare system is so much more than just charity. Because we do not say to the rich people: Please, give something to the poor. Instead we say: German people, help yourself! Everyone must help, whether you are rich or poor! Everyone must have the belief that there’s always someone in a much worse situation than I am, and this person I want to help as a comrade. If one should say: Yes, but do I have to sacrifice a lot? That is the glory of giving! When you sacrifice for your community, then you can walk with your head held up high…

Those are great words!

This recovery in Germany by Hitler did not go unnoticed by world leaders.

“Through an independent monetary policy of sovereign credit and a full employment public
works program, the Third Reich was able to turn a bankrupt Germany, stripped of overseas
colonies, into the strongest economy in Europe within four years, even before armament spending
began.” (Henry C.K. Liu, “Nazism and the German Economic Miracle,” Asia Times (May 24, 2005).

Winston Churchill, who would later become Hitler’s enemy when German
economic power began to again challenge that of Great Britain, had this to say in 1935 — (before he
became the spokesperson for the Jewish Focus group):
“In fifteen years that have followed this resolve, he [Hitler] has succeeded in restoring
Germany to the most powerful position in Europe, and not only has he restored the position of his
country, but he has even, to a very great extent, reversed the results of the Great War… the
vanquished are in the process of becoming the victors and the victors the vanquished… whatever
else might be thought about these exploits they are certainly among the most remarkable in the
whole history of the world.”

“One may dislike Hitler’s system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country
were defeated I should hope we should find a champion as indomitable to restore our courage and
lead us back to our place among the nations.” — Winston Churchill, 1935

David Lloyd George (Prime Minister of Great Britain 1916-22) had this to say on visiting Hitler and Germany in 1936.

“Whatever one may think of Hitler’s methods - and they are certainly not those of a parliamentary country, there can be no doubt that he has achieved a marvellous transformation in the spirit of the people, in their attitude towards each other, and in their social and economic outlook.

He rightly claimed at Nuremberg that in four years his movement had made a new Germany.

It is not the Germany of the first decade that followed the war - broken, dejected and bowed down with a sense of apprehension and impotence. It is now full of hope and confidence, and of a renewed sense of determination to lead its own life without interference from any influence outside its own frontiers.

There is for the first time since the war a general sense of security. The people are more cheerful. There is a greater sense of general gaiety of spirit throughout the land. It is a happier Germany. I saw it everywhere, and Englishmen I met during my trip and who knew Germany well were very impressed with the change.

One man has accomplished this miracle. He is a born leader of men. A magnetic and dynamic personality with a single-minded purpose, as resolute will and a dauntless heart.

He is not merely in name but in fact the national Leader. He has made them safe against potential enemies by whom they were surrounded. He is also securing them against the constant dread of starvation which is one of the most poignant memories of the last years of the War and the first years of the Peace. Over 700,000 died of sheer hunger in those dark years. You can still see the effect in the physique of those who were born into that bleak world.

The fact that Hitler has rescued his country from the fear of repetition of that period of despair, penury and humiliation has given him an unchallenged authority in modern Germany.

Catholic and Protestant, Prussian and Bavarian, employer and workman, rich and poor, have been consolidated into one people. Religious, provincial and class origins no longer divide the nation. There is a passion for unity born of dire necessity.

I have never met a happier people than the Germans and Hitler is one of the greatest men”

In response to a telegram from Roosevelt who accused Hitler of aggression, Hitler gave a speech in the Reichstag on April 28 1939 in which he said, “I took the leadership of a state which was faced by complete ruin thanks to the promises of the outside world and the evil of its democratic regime… Billions of German savings accumulated in gold or foreign exchange during many years of peace were extorted from us. We lost our colonies. In 1933, I had in my country 7,000,000 unemployed, a few million part-time workers, millions of impoverished peasants, trade destroyed, commerce ruined; in short, general chaos.

“Since then, Mr Roosevelt, I have only been able to fulfil one single task. I cannot feel myself responsible for a world, for this world took no interest in the pitiful fate of my people. I have regarded myself as called upon by Providence to serve my own people alone and to deliver them from their frightful misery. Thus, for the past six and one half years, I have lived day