How it actually looked at the time ?
While we , shaking his head to study this growing Holocaust , the question arises as to how it looked around it. How did the people? Where was the economy? A deputy of the provincial Landtag from Heide - Gustav Bruhn has tried 87 years ago in the Kiel City Hall to explain.
From the minutes of the provincial Landtag in Kiel on 8 January 23
Note: The provincial administration had submitted a request to pay the high debt can take out a loan at the State Bank . Something like that would make today no one and did not get even more :
Abg. Bruhn1= Heide: Ladies and gentlemen ! When we take a position on the economic situation of the province, so we should not start from the premise that the economic and financial situation in the foreseeable future and will ever be another . If we look at from this point of view the question of the credit of the province, we must say that the overall economic situation in Germany and in Europe generally downhill . We can not expect that we can expect an improvement in the coming years . The conditions , however, which are linked to this issue of these foreign loan , ie the pledge of all property of the province are we provisionally still unknown, and therefore we must have more education about it. The loan is to be granted to the period of 5 years . Let us look at the supposedly in preparation reconversion of the economy in the kingdom of scale , we can see that today's industry is concerned with the idea to convert the American model , but in less than 5 years can not be performed. Thus also the structure of the economy and improve the yield of the banking industry in the provinces is not ensured within this time, and as a result, that the loans as we let them decide in the form of foreign loan , can not pay it back , and that means convenient that all the property of the province to the Americans fall prey after 5 years as property. This means the so-called Dawesierung the province of Schleswig -Holstein. And in the other provinces the same tendency is going on, and therefore the means Dawesierung Germany. If we look at the Dawesierung Canada , we see that the economy of Canada, the schools, everything in public life , are under American influence . We see in Canada exactly the same process as we would see him later in Germany . And if we are to build roads and for the operations of the local authorities approve today a loan , which means the expropriation of municipal and provincial property from the outset , then you have to think about whether to agree to this company or not feeling well .
Jürgen Kuczynski describes in " Volume 6 , The history of the condition of the workers under capitalism / under fascism " in exactly the same dramatic way :
"With the beginning of the 20th Century capitalism occurs in all the major capitalist countries to a new stage of its development : it is to monopoly capitalism , to finance capitalism , imperialism . The processes of concentration of production and capital , the closer integration of industry and the banks , the division of the world among the major powers had reached a stage resulted in the numerical changes to changes in the nature , quantity turned into quality. ...
The concentration of production and capital , ie the emergence of very large firms and companies with simultaneous destruction of many smaller and medium-sized works by competition had brought it about that too in various industries, often in the main , a single company or often a group of companies production, prices and inventions etc. dominate or dictate investigated . ...
Cooperation between industry and banks ( financial ) was so tight that the management of banks and large companies to a certain extent was uniformly carried out by a small group of capitalists , we find the names of the Supervisory Board of both banks and industrial plants so that we of closest interdependence of industry and finance , can speak of a merging of bank capital with industrial capital. That is financial capital . ...
To make their dictatorship effective to be able to expand reaction and violence to all areas of social life, the monopolies merge with the State to State Monopolistic Capitalism , a gigantic machine of oppression of man by man ."
1The MPs Bruhn was the Heider Communist Party chairman Gustav Bruhn, described in George Gerchens Brochure: "From Heider marketplace to Neuengamme concentration camp . "„Vom Heider Marktplatz zum KZ- Neuengamme.“