US firms and Nazi Germany

Very interesting article here, on the complicity of the US large corporations and Nazi Germany, before and during the war. The author has 2 PhDs.

Also interesting would be his book The Myth of the Good War.

 

those look pretty good

 

very interesting indeed. I have been looking for this sort of thing.

 

I would like to be able to stand up and say that this sort of thing is just the kind of anti-capitalistic propaganda that commie subversives would manufacture to attack the God-fearing capitalits of America with. I cannot though, because capitalism is not a moral system. It does not have inherant moral or ethical controls. The greed of the captains of industry will be their moral compass. I am ashamed for the part that these businesses appear to have had in the rise to power of the Third Reich and the complicity that gives them in the atrocities the Third Reich committed.

It saddens me to have read the articles, but although I would love to plead extenuating circumstaces, I fear it would be folly. I work for a coporation and I know how our executives would leap for joy if labor unions were to be outlawed. I think they might wet themselves in their excitement!

The philosophers have always pointed out that capatalism is worse than communism. Capatialism is inherantly evil and communism is inherantly good. One serves the few at the expense of the masses and one serves the masses for the benefit of all. This is the idealogical view. In practice it has been the historical reality that the manipulation of the masses by the capitalists, moderated by the masses, has been better for those societies than the manipulation and absolute control by the few, unmoderated by the masses, in communism. As the article shows the worst possible combination would be to put the few in control not just of business, but also of the government. This was the case in the article as well as in the Soviet Union. God grant us the abiity to moderate our greed and lusts for power that lead us to do the horrible things we do to each other.

 

Nothing new really. Just ask Turkey, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland about the same thing. Back then and also today it is explained by " If you don´t somebody else will!" and I´m afraid that is just the case....

In politics I have the "wheel" theory. Political views are not a line with widely separated ends it is a wheel. Extreme communism and extreme rightism are the same thing really i.e. dictatorship, just a different name. So when you go to the extreme right you might as well come out in the extreme left.

 

You might also find this interesting, about the German quest for Penicillin.

Found this after watching "Downfall" and thinking, hang on, how did Hitler get hold of pencillin?

An interesting sideline on WW2.

Pilzkrieg: the German wartimequest for penicillin