It honestly makes me feel kind of sick? I already have imposter syndrome and basically went back into the closet wrt being nonbinary because I was being harassed a couple years ago

Again, if you have evidence to the contrary, you can contact the author of the research paper, or you can submit your findings to a peer-reviewed academic journal. Here are some further academic sources that also support the claim that the Nazi economy was heavily engaged in privatization, and some relevant quotes:

"After the 1931 banking crisis the survival of the four German great banks was safeguarded only by a huge injection of taxpayers’ money. In return, the great banks were partly nationalized and the two worst affected, the Dresdner Bank and the Danat Bank, were merged. Re-privatization was, however, started only a few years later and finalized under Nazi rule in 1937."

Source: After the Crisis: Nationalisation and re-privatization of the German great banks 1931–1937

"There occurred hardly any nationalizations of private firms during the Third Reich. In addition, there were few enterprises newly created as state-run firms."

"The foregoing discussion is clearly corroborated by an analysis of Nazi intentions. Available sources make perfectly clear that the Nazi regime did not want at all a German economy with public ownership of many or all enterprises. Therefore it generally had no intention whatsoever of nationalizing private firms or creating state firms. On the contrary the re-privatization of enterprises was furthered wherever possible."

Source: The Role of Private Property in the Nazi Economy: The Case of Industry

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Thanks for the reply; I'm not all that well-versed on the subject, so I definitely need to read more about it!

Wasn't fascist corporatism basically inspired by functionalism? I vaguely remember reading about how Durkheim rejected materialism and class conflict in favor of a form of corporatism.

Correct. Because the Nazi economy was called 'privatization.'

If you wish to argue against the author's findings, you can contact gbel@ub.edu.

Radiation experiments in various US universities (Vanderbilt University gave over 800 pregnant mothers 'vitamin drinks' which turned out to be radioactive chemicals that led to some miscarrying their babies, developing radiation sickness and cancer) and schools (Walter E. Fernald State School injected radioactive chemicals in disabled children, fed children radioactive oatmeal funded by the US Atomic Energy commission and the Quaker Oats company, collected their spinal fluid for analysis). These are just two, but there were many more like these.

“In return for business assistance, the Nazis hastened to give evidence of their good will by restoring to private capitalism a number of monopolies held or controlled by the state."

In other words, the Nazis specifically took certain businesses that were formerly nationalized and then privatized them.

For further reading:

• Retrospectives The Coining of “Privatization” and Germany’s National Socialist Party - Article from Journal of Economic Perspectives
• Against the mainstream: Nazi privatization in 1930s Germany - Research paper from the University of Barcelona

Sandile! It's the only Pokemon that I verbally 'aww' at every time I see its sprite or model

Reminded of this classic video

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Even when I first heard about it in history class, I thought "Well they were Nazis so of course they didn't like being ruled by Communists and revolted against them." Never realised quite to the extent it was (entirely) a CIA/MI6 OP. Thank you for the write up 👍