Happy Kill Hitler Day

On this day 67 years ago a group of German conspirators try to blast Hitler to pieces in his HQ on the eastern front.

If Adolf You-know-who won the Big One, he would have razed Wall Street to the ground, and you wouldn't have the luxury of worrying about your exit ops from GS TMT.

Food for thought, monkeys.

 

Gotta disagree on the Wall Street part as Hitler both benefited from it and would have needed them in the post-WW2 fallout. I did, however, just finish watching some raw footage of the Russian breakthrough to Berlin. That shit-lipped psychopath actually had geriatrics and pre-teens manning up arms at the very end. I don't think the final tallies were mentioned but certainly several hundred thousands of young children and the elderly died so that sick fuck could live an extra week. As much as I make fun of Germans, they are resilient and exemplary people in how they recovered from that war and how they've been economically carrying Europe for the last half century and change. Not to go on a rant or anything...

 
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Midas Mulligan Magoo:
Gotta disagree on the Wall Street part as Hitler both benefited from it and would have needed them in the post-WW2 fallout. I did, however, just finish watching some raw footage of the Russian breakthrough to Berlin. That shit-lipped psychopath actually had geriatrics and pre-teens manning up arms at the very end. I don't think the final tallies were mentioned but certainly several hundred thousands of young children and the elderly died so that sick fuck could live an extra week. As much as I make fun of Germans, they are resilient and exemplary people in how they recovered from that war and how they've been economically carrying Europe for the last half century and change. Not to go on a rant or anything...

I was disappointed to learn some of my boyhood heros, Henry Ford and Thomas Watson, were pretty big fans of the big A. Henry received something like the Grand Cross of the German Eagle or some such rot, and Tom Watson supplied through their Dehomag subsidiary machines for their secret police. But Wall Street? I don't know man. That ain't smokestack America. If you read some of his joint plans with Japan to invade the US and do what he was doing in Europe, your skin would crawl.

And yes, much respect for Germans like Beck, Stauffenberg, Witzleben. They tried to blast that cocksucker into 1949 but too bad someone moved the bomb and had the windows open.

 
ivoteforthatguy:
Midas Mulligan Magoo:
Gotta disagree on the Wall Street part as Hitler both benefited from it and would have needed them in the post-WW2 fallout. I did, however, just finish watching some raw footage of the Russian breakthrough to Berlin. That shit-lipped psychopath actually had geriatrics and pre-teens manning up arms at the very end. I don't think the final tallies were mentioned but certainly several hundred thousands of young children and the elderly died so that sick fuck could live an extra week. As much as I make fun of Germans, they are resilient and exemplary people in how they recovered from that war and how they've been economically carrying Europe for the last half century and change. Not to go on a rant or anything...

I was disappointed to learn some of my boyhood heros, Henry Ford and Thomas Watson, were pretty big fans of the big A. Henry received something like the Grand Cross of the German Eagle or some such rot, and Tom Watson supplied through their Dehomag subsidiary machines for their secret police. But Wall Street? I don't know man. That ain't smokestack America. If you read some of his joint plans with Japan to invade the US and do what he was doing in Europe, your skin would crawl.

And yes, much respect for Germans like Beck, Stauffenberg, Witzleben. They tried to blast that cocksucker into 1949 but too bad someone moved the bomb and had the windows open.

I've read them. You gotta be able to put rhetoric aside and look at things without bias. With regards to a guy like Hitler, that's damn near impossible. Just think about it practically, had the Nazis won they would have needed a large liquid capital source. Presumably, the only such venue left at that point would have been The Street. As much as his plans had in grandeur they lacked in timing. The ability to cross the pond and invade the Western Hemisphere was at least another two to three decades away.

What really worries me is the way that Wall Street at that time and today is capable of rationalizing the chase of the dollar as an excuse for dealing with anyone and everyone. The captains of industry you mentioned are all too good of an example. If anything, Hitler's Germany is a great example of how a nationalized economy can function like a runaway train...but also, of how easily it can crash into a wall and shatter in a million pieces.

 

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