@Strandjunker

Germany had the same problem that America has now.

Moneyed elites funding campaigns of bigotry & buying elections.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-oil-industry-donations

Foreign money & support from anonymous sources poured into Nazi coffers in 1933, exploiting the financial crisis caused by the 1929 crash & the ill-advised Smoot-Hawley "beggar thy neighbor" tariffs.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-american-billionaires-who-fell-in-love-with-fascism-are-not-the-first

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Meeting_of_20_February_1933

https://archive.is/bFtmg

https://medium.com/rambles-through-history-and-philosophy/how-the-nazis-financed-an-economic-miracle-and-prepared-a-war-3e60b3e5d9d8
https://archive.is/N4Q3o

1/

2/

https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/hitler-millionaire-backers-how-german-elite-facilitated-rise-nazis-third-reich/

https://lithub.com/in-the-room-where-german-tycoons-agreed-to-fund-hitlers-rise-to-power/

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/nazi-germany-tariffs-trade/682521/

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-23513654

https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-117-nazi-billionaires

That same pattern of elite capitalization of fascism is now back in the USA.

With the same orchestration of a global financial crisis & confiscation of other nation's assets to profit supporters of the regime.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/billionaire-trump-ally-peter-thiel-flees-to-argentina-just-like-the-nazis/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/may/18/nazi-billionaires-book-hitler-bmw-porsche

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/how-trumps-iran-war-could-torch-the-global-economy

https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/global-trends/collapse-is-near-trumps-window-to-resolve-iran-crisis-closing-fast/articleshow/131488022.cms

https://www.ft.com/content/bd7a2d03-6df0-4212-aa67-95160bae9db6
https://archive.is/QiWAN