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View submission: the German fascist regime promoting the "people's car" 80 years ago
It's definitely a weird thing to talk about, because for the sheer evil of the Nazi regime, a part of why they were to so popular and powerful was that they truly did revive the German economy with a set of very good reforms.
Comment by EuroLavaRiver at 12/03/2025 at 16:08 UTC
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And a bit of looting and counterfeiting.
Comment by Matazat at 12/03/2025 at 16:26 UTC
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They were not good reforms, the Nazi economy was a war economy built to liquidate the capital of their neighbors. They needed domestic auto manufacturing because they would've decimated all the foreign countries that build cars.
Comment by OneBangMan at 12/03/2025 at 13:51 UTC
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Agreed, that’s why they were so popular. They were sick of many many things that came from WW1 and Hitler dragged them out of the dirt. You’d be an idiot in Germany not to idolise a man who made the average German person feel good about their country, aswell as giving them the needs to lift themselves up out of the Great Depression, the treaty of Versailles. People saw his true colours once his mask had slipped though especially internationally.
Certain people were smart to get out of Germany once he started to persecute people for their beliefs, race etc. with the death of Hindenburg everything that followed was just shady and grifty shite, that was the nail in the coffin for Germany at that point. I think events like Kristallnacht, anchluss and night of the long knives showed the world what type of person Hitler was.
And it’s not weird to talk about it, it’s history at the end of the day.