Hitler's Germany and pre 1989 Czechoslovakia was also very safe.
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...having a hard time believing you typed that. I think some might disagree.
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That is a textbook example of American's misunderstanding of Hitler and similar dictatorship's in Europe in his days - such as Mussolini. They did not get the nation's support by publicly announcing:
we will kill all Jews and the whole opposition. The beginning was very agreeable to the average Herr Schmidt or Frau Miller. They locked up and punished criminals, gypsies, bums and homeless people, also gays, they made things work better - like the railway in Italy - and introduced a vast number of popular and to the average citizen appealing programs. Here are some:
Hitler and the Nazis called for reining in German financial institutions, job creation, making the fat cats pay their fair share and for increased spending on social welfare programs.
The Nazi Party also won friends and influenced people by community organizing. They ran soup kitchens, promoted youth programs and championed the 99% in issues like landlord tenant relations, particularly in their main base of Munich.
Adolf Hitler in power enacted a number of important reforms and institute his progressive program without being impeded by a set-in-stone constitution or partisan bickering. He promised Germans a new society and his word for this was 'volksgemeinschaft', a 'people's community.'
Hitler and Nazis ended labor abuses and a number of strikes plaguing Germany by creating the German Labor Front as an umbrella organization to represent all workers, administrators, and company owners. He banned strikes, firings without government approval and lockouts. This ensured that government would be the ultimate protector of worker's rights and the arbitrator of all labor disputes, something American labor leaders like Richard Trumka and Jimmy Hoffa Jr. have been advocating for years.
Farmers received subsidies and guaranteed prices for their crops in exchange for increased government supervision over what they grew and how they did it, and were given loans for tools, livestock and seed, as well as labor to work their farms by the state if needed.
While Hitler recognized the sanctity of private property, he also was emphatic that the government should have the power to regulate the use of private property for the good of the nation since it had been acquired with the help and use of public personnel and infrastructure - aka, you did not build this.
At Hitler's direction his finance minister Hjalmar Schacht instituted Keynesnian policies with large deficits and and low interest rates combined with stimulus programs of pubic works to reduce unemployment. Hitler also mandated price freezes to prevent a recurrence of inflation. He started numerous public sector programs that actually got built, including the construction of dams, the autobahns, railroads, and public buildings as well as a military build up that later superseded the public works policies while maintaining high employment and job creation.
Hitler and the Nazis also were very involved in picking winners and losers among Germany's corporate and manufacturing concerns, swapping preferential treatment,government contracts and loans and policies that benefited specific well connected and supportive companies in exchange for political and financial support for Hitler and his policies.In essence, Hitler made sectors of German business his partners in building the Third Reich while suppressing other, non-supportive players..certainly a tactic we've seen used recently with great success.
Hitler revamped Germany's healthcare system and made it truly universal as well as state subsidized.Hitler and the Nazis considered healthcare to be the right of all Germans, and there were numerous public-health campaigns in Nazi Germany urging healthy eating and exercise, and even no smoking campaigns at a time when cigarettes and cigars were being puffed with abandon worldwide.
Hitler enacted strong environmentalist legislation, such as the 1935 "Reich Nature Protection Act" which sought to control air and water pollution, reduce the use of coal and promote forest management and preservation.
.. all that led to the situation, that I summarized in simple statement:
Hitler's Germany was also considered very safe. And it was, unlike random and chaotic process in Soviet Russia - if you read Solzenicyn's Gulag, you know what I am talking about - Hitler's Germany pampered and took care of the workers and middle class, while the price for it was personal freedom of everybody and destruction of other races and groups that did not fit the vision of the future Germany.
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