Hitler's Germany Now Frankly Stands for Naked Capitalism
Feigenbaum, William M.
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...There is no doubt that—at least at this moment—the Nazi regime has dug itself in and that it has complete power...
...And by egging his depraved followers into anti-Semitic persecutions "he gives them the substitute for a class war, which he has checked, AND BLINDS THEM TO THE ESSENTIAL BIG BUSINESS CHARACTER OF HIS OWN ECONOMIC POLICY...
...Back of the city is a vast island, a beautiful lush island, the loveliest island of its sice in the world...
...Nothing Left But Anti-Semitism-_ Nothing Left But Anti-Semitism "It can be said," writes Mr...
...And American interests dominate Cuba's government policy...
...What Now...
...Mr...
...To the right the emer.dd green of the Cuban shores with mountains off in the mists, and as the ship approaches, the beautiful buildings of the Malecon, the lovely harbor drive of Havana...
...It is Ion" overdue...
...orld x feet wider H. Because it for a poor 01 who's BO i cant think ¦n in Santa target off...
...As to his former antiCapitalist propaganda, "he is busy explaining that he did not really mean it"I Now, says this writer, if Hitler could bring himself "to throw over his impossible dream" of a "Nordicized Germany" and let the Jews alone "He would find the world over the same support of conservatives who support Mussolini...
...Americans did not care...
...3. "Industrial magnates like Fritz Thysser and bankers like Dr...
...in season and out there is the magnificent bathing beach at Marianao and the unbelievable beauty...
...However, there is no possibility of this, for amazing as it seems to sane people, Hitler actually believes in his anti-Semitism...
...But the millions who had shouted "Ileil" and had engaged in the orgies against Socialists, Jews, Communists, business men, pacifists, liberals, scientists and other "enemies" of the state, were not and are not satisfied...
...Socialism will naturally remain on the Nazi leaders' list but only as a word...
...6. The lower middle class, the artisans and shopkeepers, who supported Hitler hoping to be protected from the department stores and big business find big business "actually protected by the Nazis...
...In season there is the race track and there is the gambing casino...
...and In so doing he made Cuba country of a few multi-millionaires . . . and millions of slaves...
...But there Is considerable question as to what the Nazi regime stand...
...nor yet the milch cow of men who seek to earn a decent and honest living, but rather of those who have hitherto claimed the whole world and the fruits thereof as their royal right...
...but Goebbels and other vote winners of the party won the support of vast masses of starving Germans on the basis of its "Socialism...
...Cuba has matchless natural resources...
...2. "Now th it the dirty work has been done, the Nazi leaders are definitely discarding the anti-Capitalistic phraseology with which they won the majority of the people AND ARE EMERGING AS FRIENDS OF GERMAN CAPITALISM AND BIG BUSINESS...
...Till'", revolution is over," says Adolf Hitler...
...to the left the forbidding fortress of Morro Castle, grim reminder of the day of pirates and much righting among the nations for possession of the harbor and the Island...
...The wind was sown, and the whirlwind is being reaped...
...And those other blissfully naive or grimly hopeful—I don't know which—people who are setting about taking the big buzzards of industry and the little lice of business right into the garden of happiness via the bluebird...
...Toot...
...Hitler himself had (and has) »« pathological i.atred for Socialism as ne has for the Jews understanding neither-but he accepted the word Socialist as a come-on...
...Hjalmar Schacht can now point with pride to the Nazi movement they had favored at the true friend of reactionary Capitalist...
...painted women inviting the traveler from doorways in the crooked streets of the old town...
...By William M. Feigenbaum Hitler's Germany Now Frankly Stands for Naked Capitalism AU "Socialist" Pretenses Discarded, Only AntiSemitism Remains—And When the Deluded Masses Awake, Look Out...
...And what do the gay tourists at Sloppy Joe's care whether or not there is freedom for labor to organize, whether there ire liberties for the Cuban people...
...Not the playground of the tired and bedeviled American working people and their families, those who jam subway trains to steaming suffocation on Sundays bearing bundles and squalling babies as they seek a breath of air at the"' beaches of the cities...
...Hitler won the financial support of Hugenberg and other big industrialists solely on the ground that the "Socialism" of his movement was window-dressing...
...Back of the Facade DUT that is not all, as Havana and its slightly off-color pleasures are not all of Cuba...
...Storm Breaks at Last Over the Palm-Shaded Near-Paradise of Cuba CO hell is breaking loose in Cuba...
...Cuba has long been a garden spot for Americans on vacation, where every prospect pleases and only man is vile...
...American bankers are interested in quick returns...
...Machado gave himself the assignment nine years ago of making Cuba a paradise for tourists, and a gold mine for investors...
...It is they who bring back tales of Cuba's glamor, and what they do not know vill not hurt them...
...and those who lay the sole blame on the doorstep of the tyrant Machado are the most mistaken people in the world...
...Hitler is not quite bright but some of his lieutenants are possessed of a certain sharp maniacal cunning, and they kept pounding away at the "Slavery of interest" and at the international bankers, winning the support of millions by their bastard "Socialism...
...And the Spirit-of-Truth shall reign o'er HS, And Humanity's banner float free, Till Humanity's message be wafted To the uttermost isles of the sea...
...Americas tourists are interested in a fast and hilarious time...
...The hundreds of millions invested in Cuba is mainly American money...
...When Hitler met six other nuts in a Munich beer garden jn 192,i weeping into their seidels over the sorrows of Germany they organized what they called a party, and named it the German Socialist Workers' Party, hoping thereby to catch the support of working people who had for sixty years been taught that only through Socialism could they win freedom...
...And now comes the reckoning for them and for the man who so loyally served them...
...Hitler contented himself with wild generalities, with sadistic threats of violence and with insane anti-Semitism...
...But the bankers are interested in what they do, and so are the investors—mostly Americans...
...Here is a very competent observer in Germany who says that it stands for Capitalism—or at least, that Hitler himself stands for Capitalism, regardless of what his deluded dupes thought they were going to get...
...so their labor movement and their liberties have been ruthlessly and savagely crushed to make profits for Americans and vast fortunes for Machado...
...thay had their good times, their horse races, their gambling, their carousing;-and their fat profits...
...But the sorely-tried masses were in no mood for betrayal...
...for now...
...men, women and children peddling tickets for the everlasting lottery bars on every corner...
...gay sidewalk cafes at the center of the city, at which sit Cuban politicians Incessantly talking politics as they look over to the gorgeous marble Capitol building under the lush palms—that is, when they are not ogling the dark-eyed women who pass by...
...I ft around lection day don't they I know MJustavus jpi Great Ktose there P "Tragic mm, wad Politics" and a book by an anonymous author, "Ex-Judge...
...When the Hitler regime seated itself in the saddle on the backs of the German people the question then arose what its policy should be...
...a couple of days later—three days from the icy gales of New York— and a prospect rises on the horizon to gladden the eye of the wearied traveler...
...You did not have to be a millionaire to enjoy a little trip to Paradise, although that would have helped...
...Edgar Ansel Mowrer, most distinguished and courageous of foreign correspondents in Germany— the man who defied the Nazi machine for six months—wrote an amazing report just before he quit Germany to take up a new post in Tokio...
...Mowrer, "that nothing is left of the Nazi political baggage but the omnipotence of state hostility to the Jews...
...rooms and **¦ bar, leaves the wintry harbor...
...4. "NOT MANY OF THE ORGANIZED WORKERS BELIEVE IN CHANCELLOR ADOLF HITLER, BUT THOSE WHO DID ARE NOW DISILLUSIONED...
...Mowrer speculates upon what will happen when disaffection among his own rank and file, the misl il and betrayed men who fought Hitler's battles and risked their necks for his accursed cause, the lower middle class and members of his private army, become unmanageable, and he concludes hjs article cautiously saying, "Should these malcontents ever make common cause with the oppressed proletarian organizations, the situation of the regime might become serious...
...Making people good by law...
...What a city...
...A two weeks' winter holiday, a few hundred dollars saved from a comfortable salary, a school teacher's winter or spring vacation, or better yet, a few hundred do'lars "earned" by gambling on margin, and you were all let for a brief essay into the role of member of the Idle Rich...
...Toot...
...Trying to change the character patterns of a nation without changing the set-up that created the patterns...
...He has felt that American investors are not interested in the conditions under which the Cuban workers live...
...And behind this state omnipotence Hitler is now seeking to obtain the support of German business...
...And that is and for nine years has been Machado's game...
...The big bankers and industrialists (some of them Jews...
...Socialism" as a "Come-on" When the Harzburg coalition was formed, pooling the fortunes of the Nazis and the Nationalists as well as other reactionary parties, it was definitely understood by the conspirators that the "Socialism" of the party was not to be taken seriously...
...Nothing remains of the Hitler "revolutoin," says Mowrer, different from Fascism in Italy except Hitler's "insistence on unproved racial theories which has occasioned persecution of Jews in the Reich...
...But they are not all the people of Cuba...
...We throw the very words right back into your teeth...
...And they call us Socialists impractical, dreamers, and idealists...
...The buzzards are already trying to buck and the lice to chisel...
...A FINE ship, beautifully equipped with dining...
...who had put up the funds for the brown uniforms and the rest of the circus insisted upon payment...
...CPEAKERS who devote a couple of minutes pointing out the striking features of The New Leader do a good Job agitating for the Socialist Party...
...Hut unfortunately for him and his "revolution" there are a lot of his followers who do not quite agree with him...
...There are those whose living Is made from catering to the gay American tourists—taxi-drivers and waiters, bartenders and those who serve in the gambling houses and the gaudier places of pleasure...
...What Mr...
...And that Cuban politicians should bribe American public opinion with their open paradise...
...fMJBA has long been America's playground and milch cow...
...And it is at just this point that the Hitler "revolution" may go on the rocks...
...And as one approaches even nearer one sees a great electric sign over the Malecon—the one word BACCARDI, signifying to thirsty travelers that their long voyage has ended and that the oasis is in sight...
...Mowrer writes can be summed up, largely in his own words, as follows: 1. Nazi Germany "emerges from the dust of revolution as the protector of Capitalism...
...P^JF) the throne of Oppression shall crumble, And the heart of the Tyrant shall quake, And the Haughty shall learn to be humble, And the Mighty their mockings forsake...
...Thsy want more than they have received...
...And so it has been for all the yearn of Independence...
...Always apparently in carnival mood...
...He succeeded in both...
...During the long drought that accompanied the so-called Goofy ("easy come easy go") Era, during the years when hundreds of millions of dollars were spent upon what was laughingly called Enforcement, hundreds of thousands streamed to Havana to taste that which was so temptingly placed before them at open bars on every street corner...
...d write and Dreiser rest anybody btbies...
...What, then, Is more natural than that Cuban politicians should play ball with American business men...
...C. "IN SHORT, OF THE PRENAZI ECONOMIC SYSTEM OF GERMANY NOTHING HAS BEEN DESTROYED BUT THE INDEPENDENT POWER OF THE BIG UNIONS...
...There dwell four million people, and to them the American tourists give never a thought, except to exclaim upon their picturesqueness...
...And now comes the reckoning...
...a day later the storms of Ilatteras, with half the passengers moaning in agony and the other half laughing over their libations...
Vol. 16 • August 1933 • No. 6
