1. The Nazis were very keen on the private ownership of land. And the first recorded land tax dates to 3000BC!
Wrong. As late as 1942 Hitler stated that land was "national property, and in the end only given to the individual as a loan.". In practice, this meant that individual owned the land on paper, but state decided what said individual can do with said land.
2. The Nazis were almost pathologically Middle Class. And the Roman Republic used progressive taxation. (The citizens considered it a point of pride to be able to pay as it was a mark of status)
Wrong. Nazis sought middle class support, but their policies were pathologically opposed to small and middle businesses.
3. Simply didn't happen. Hitler personally made sure that Krupp's stayed in the family.
Yes, because Krupp was a major Nazi supporter. They still had a Nazi official installed to make sure factory followed the government's four year plans.
4. In the early days the Nazis were more set on kicking undesirables out of the country. And usually sold off confiscated assets. They believed in Private ownership, with state ownership only where necessary.
Private ownership with state control. Which is basically nicer way of saying "state ownership".
Just a thought exercise: If you buy a house with your own money, but
I tell you what you can have in the house, when you can come to it and when you can leave, what you can buy and who you can invite... who really owns the house? You, or I?
5. Not having a central bank is very American. Almost every other nation does have one. The Bank of England was founded in 1694. There is an even older private bank still operating in Germany.
Having central bank is also very socialist.
6. The Nazis were very keen on public transport ownership. They sponsored the right of every German to own a car.
Which is why they expanded the Reich Ministry of Transport to the point that it achieved status of a malignant social tumor.</sarcasm>
Under Nazi control, the Transport Ministry expanded exponentially. The
Reichsbahn, which had become Germany's largest public asset and also the largest such enterprise in the capitalist world at the time,
[2] was taken over by the
RVM in 1937. Railroads in the
German states, transportation associations, and even private transport companies also came under the Nazi government's direct control through the Ministry.
7. Did you miss all the massive private arms manufacturers? IG Farben had its own sub camp at Auschwitz. The Nazis Privatised oppression.
Privately owned but state controlled. In other words, socialism. IG Farben dealt directly with the government, and government officials were IG Farben managers.
8. There is nothing Socialist, or new, in conscripted labour. Ancient Egypt had conscripted labour. Anglo-Saxon England had conscripted labour.
There is nothing new, but it is still quite socialist. Also, economy of Ancient Egypt was palace economy, which is basically ancient version of socialist command economy. Or more precisely, socialism is modern-day version of ancient palace economy.
Never heard of conscripted labour in Anglo-Saxon England, but I don't know that much about it anyway.
9. The Nazis had a weird purity in agriculture thing going on. They really didn't like cities. (Regardless of Hitler's fantasy re-building projects)
Nazis didn't really like countryside either. Rather, they aimed to merge cities and countryside into one continuous, monotonous blob.
10. Every remotely civilised modern nation has free education for children in public schools. There is nothing intrinsically communist or Nazi in the concept. And the abolition of child factory labour is an absolute good.
It becomes intrinsically communist when you
force it onto people. Issue isn't public education. Issue is when public education becomes the only thing that is available. Nazis outlawed homeschooling and private schools both.
A lot of the public works were inherited by them, from Weimar. Government Bonds and Fiat Currency paid for the ACW.
And Nazi Germany worked on 4-Year Plans, NOT 5.
I used "five year plan" specifically to draw a parallel with Soviet five-year plans. Year up or down, doesn't change the fact that they were essentially the same thing.
And Weimar Republic itself was quite socialist (and also quite evil), so saying that Nazis inherited a lot from Weimar actually supports my point.
