Editing National Socialism (section)

==== In Power ====
It is often asserted that the working class happily participated in Nazi festivities and organizations following 1933. Contrary to this delusional belief, participation in National Socialist activities was essentially mandatory. For example, workers were often disillusioned with the forced participation in events and parades:<blockquote>"While ‘the media blared forth their celebration’ that workers had been won over to the new regime, attendance was not entirely voluntary, since workers only got paid if they participated in the march, and ‘the atmosphere was less than wholly enthusiastic.’”<ref>Peter Fritzsche, ''Hitler's First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich.'' (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2020) 205.</ref></blockquote>The National-Soycialists largely defined socialism in political terms, and believed that seizing state power was the only measure by which socialism could be established for the Germans. As it turned out, the Nazi emphasis on political 'socialism' was really just putting the needs of the army (dying for the soy nation-state was the highest form of Volk expression in Hitler's view) above those of the "anti-national" political parties (KPD, SPD etc.) The specific economic points of Nazi policy were mostly geared towards autarky and state regulation (necessary components of war economies); in fact, the Nazi view towards the economy was so overt, that one does not even need to brand it as mere "propaganda" in order to see its clear connection with war industry.<ref>Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann, "Nazi Economic Thought and Rhetoric During the Weimar Republic: Capitalism and its Discontents," ''Politics, Religion & Ideology'' 14. no.3 (2013). </ref> 

An important point of the Nazi economy was that it was predatory in nature. German financiers financed war industry through the MEFO bills, which effectively created a fake money supply. The resulting inflation and the necessity of repayment (profits) for these war conglomerates and financiers could only be carried out through the looting of foreign countries. Therefore, by the late 1930s, the German state started plundering foreign economies (Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland etc. etc.) This is completely contrary to the retarted "far-right" notion that Hitler wanted peace. ['''To be expanded and elaborated upon''']

A common argument of Mises School mental retards is that politics took precedent over the economy, and that state/Party officials gained enormous power. This argument is seen clearly in Gunther Reimann's book [https://mises.org/library/vampire-economy ''The Vampire Economy''] (it was written without access to most of the archives). A commonly cited problem for industrialists is that the state prohibited imports of materials and restricted the convertibility of German Reichsmarks into foreign currencies. Any intelligent person can see that such policies, while perhaps hurting individual businessmen at certain points, were very favourable for the overall German war economy. The strict control over the economy and partial "nationalization" was accelerated in 1936 under the Four Year Plan; obviously, this coincided with a greater drive for rearmament and the beginning of the period of expansion (see Rhineland, and starting with Austria in 1938).