Austerity Psychosis Gave Hitler Victory      (Historical Fact!) We must recall that it was austerity that gave Hitler political victory. Anton Erlekenz was a moderate trade union official who campaigned against the austerity psychosis in Germany in 1930-1932, before Hitler seized power. He saw clearly that as long as millions remained unemployed, the struggle against fascist ideology, no matter how well intended and executed, was hopeless and doomed. Only by replacing austerity with the recovery program and creating millions of jobs could fascism be defeated. If a democratic government in Germany had forced the central bank to issue several billion marks of long-term, low-interest credit — as demanded by the trade unionist Woytinsky and the civil servant Lautenbach — the autobahns and superhighways could have been started in 1931 and 1932, putting millions of unemployed back to work. The loss of millions of desperate supporters could have cut Hitler off at the knees. Such a policy might have meant No Nazi dictatorship, and No World War II in Europe. In the era of nuclear weapons, we are playing for even bigger stakes today. The democratic forms of representative government in this country cannot and will not survive very long in the face of 30 to 40 million unemployed.
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