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In July 1933, a few months after Hitler seized power, William E. Dodd arrived in Berlin. His appointment as ambassador of the United States of America by President Roosevelt came as a surprise. As a historian and university professor, William E. Dodd had no experience with diplomacy and was unfamiliar with its linguistic codes. In the French embassy, the experienced diplomat André François-Poncet had already been observing the rise of the Nazi Party for two years. Within months, the National Socialists had brought the entire state apparatus under their control. But they did not yet feel comfortable in diplomatic circles - apart from a few, including Hermann Göring or Gestapo chief Rudolf Diels, who soon became welcome guests at chic embassy dinners. Hitler himself appeared only rarely.
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you’re all out context again, starting with unfounded slanders – what was the situation in the early 30s??? the western countries were mired in depressions, with politicians wringing their hands and saying there was nothing they could do about it oh woe oh woe!!! – and I guess from their perspectives it was true, they were all controlled by the international banking cartel, and the banking cartel was completely fine with keeping the peasants oppressed – Hitler told the Germans if they elected him he would restore German prosperity, and pride after the injustices of the Versailles treaty, and in… Read more »
WE are not out of context. We published this for its GRAPHIC DOCUMENTARY value, not its historical narrative content, which we warned about in an editor’s note. —TGP
Patrice: There’s alot of propaganda going around recently about Hitler’s economic miracle. It seems organized and directed. I recall in the 60s a Star Trek episode in which Leonard Nimoy and Willian Shatner discussed the Nazi economic miracle, of course they lived post nuclear war, and post pandemics (by that fictional narrative) so that historical continuity was vague if not lost. Such is about the suspect quality of this recent neo-Nazi sensationalism. I will appreciate it if Greanville Post can publish material about Nazi economic precarity, how they were fraudulent with their mefo bill schemes and how they were assisted… Read more »
Yes, we will certainly look into that. Its clear the capitalists have been consciously rehabilitating Nazism for a long time, and now the tendency is becoming undeniable.
Thanks for responding. It scares me that Jimmy Dore, Grayzone and Chris Hedges want to share a stage with right wingers, like if they can’t fly on their own. America First before WWII was obviously Nazi-allied. Thanks for running the Nader-Hedges piece so we can examine the situation.