re: #157 neverquit

I don’t need lectured on the relationship between the industrialists and Hitler. They certainly were not free market capitalists.

National Socialism was all about the state, not individual rights. I don’t need to read the accepted historians to understand that.

This is just plain WRONG. Fascism was about the state, but not Nazism. Unlike the Italians, the German nazis did what they could to destroy the state - and replace it with movement organizations. For example: Police vs SS.

They did so because the state would have reduced their power - only with the uncertainty and dynamical nature of movements you get into full-on totalitarian territory, only then you get people fully terrorized if they do not know anymore what is actually allowed and what is not. The nazis wanted to get rid of the certainty that laws provide - they were not interested in enforcing laws they introduced, they wanted to enforce the Fhrer’s will. And that is by definition hard to know…

I realize you are not interested in reading “accepted historians” - but for those who are: Hannah Arendt (The Origins of Totalitarianism) and Ernst Frnkel (The Dual State) wrote in detail about specifically this.