because it most certainly bears repeating...
From hitler's 25 points of the nasdp:
7. We demand that the state shall above all undertake to ensure that every citizen shall have the possibility of living decently and earning a livelihood. ~socialist This could be reasonably stated if the government only acts as a mediator in the negotiations between worker and corporation, and this in order to assure as our government does currently, that no abusing of the American worker will go unpunished or remain in silence. Now what is it called in which is done by our own government again within this nation ?.
10. The first duty of every citizen must be to work mentally or physically. No individual shall do any work that offends against the interest of the community (unless it - otherwise does this mean can't do it unless it is) to the benefit of all? ~socialist Yes this is big time socialism at it's worst.
therefore we demand:
11. That all unearned income, and all income that does not arise from work, be abolished.~socialist No entitlement programs what so ever ?
12. Since every war imposes on the people fearful sacrifices in blood and treasure, all personal profit arising from the war must be regarded as treason to the people. We therefore demand the total confiscation of all war profits.~socialist Hmmm I can understand the stance taken, and the reasoning behind this one, as such profits made could very easily work to cause severe corruption to form, and this by making war profits that to inspire longer wars or to set up corporations who profit from war, in which then uses part of those profits to corrupt governments into continuing wars for those profits.
13. We demand the nationalization of all trusts.~socialist Trust as in banks or what maybe ? What reason was this being done for, and isn't this what our government wanted?
14. We demand profit-sharing in large industries.~socialist Profit sharing unto whom as the beneficiaries of such profit sharing ? Here we have had profit sharing by major corporations and businesses found in programs for their employee's, so is this the same in notion there of as is spoken about here ?
15. We demand a generous increase in old-age pensions.~socialist Not a bad thing, if these pensions had been underfunded for far to long.
16. We demand the creation and maintenance of a sound middle-class, the immediate communalization of large stores which will be rented cheaply to small tradespeople, and the strongest consideration must be given to ensure that small traders shall deliver the supplies needed by the state, the provinces and municipalities.~socialist This is not a bad idea or response to a problem that may have been encountered upon review by any nation when spoken of, where as the middle class and small businesses were being wiped out by corporate stores in which consolidated wealth into a few sectors, thus making the whole nation to suffer, and to become weakened in the other sectors as a result of.
17. We demand an agrarian reform in accordance with our national requirements, and the enactment of a law to expropriate the owners without compensation of any land needed for the common purpose. The abolition of ground rents, and the prohibition of all speculation in land.~socialist Hmmm, what is this the doing away with land ownership or the acquisition of lands by the government when ever needed by way of eminent domain, is this what this is saying actually ?
18. We demand that ruthless war be waged against those who work to the injury of the common welfare. Traitors, usurers, profiteers, etc., are to be punished with death, regardless of creed or race.~socialist To the injury of the common welfare eh ? What did Hitler find in this nation, that made him so popular when spoke in these ways to the people against those who have done these things ? Was their grave damage to the middle class and small businesses by way of such people working against the common welfare and strength of that nation to be what he found there, and they were found doing this for their own greed and profiteering and racketeering in which weakened the nation sector by sector in a treasonous way ?
19. We demand that roman law, which serves a materialist ordering of the world, be replaced by german common law.~socialist Not sure what this means exactly, so not sure how to comment exactly on it. Help me out on this one if you will, thanks. It sounds as if they have something against materialism or the worshipping of materialism as it were or that he found in the nation at the time, in which was abhorred by others in the world or by Germany's enemies at the time.
20. In order to make it possible for every capable and industrious german to obtain higher education, and thus the opportunity to reach into positions of leadership, the state must assume the responsibility of organizing thoroughly the entire cultural system of the people. The curricula of all educational establishments shall be adapted to practical life. The conception of the state idea (science of citizenship) must be taught in the schools from the very beginning. We demand that specially talented children of poor parents, whatever their station or occupation, be educated at the expense of the state.~socialist Not to bad if the curriculum is a good one, and the teaching there after was a good one that lifted Germany out of it's rut that it may have been found in (don't like the wording of only recognizing specially talented children of poor parents, where as it should have said that all German children of poor parents, can if choose to or their parents choose to, be educated at the expense of the state), Funny that we now see how our school system has been working to bring down the minds of the talented, in order to lift up the minds of the less fortunate in a more equal socialist manor here, and the school system is also being used for political agenda's in order to make change from a young age to affect generations to come to be found during their older ages. This (science of citizenship) is a loaded phrase indeed, in which can mean so many bad things, yet it is all depending on who is behind this science of it all, and as proven Hitler was not the one to be promoting such science of citizenship to be found out to late by the Germans sadly enough. Hitler had become somehow the ultimate betrayal of all that was Germany in his dealing with the Jews as he had done, so it negated any good that he may have had in this thinking, in which the German people had elected him for.
21. The state has the duty to help raise the standard of national health by providing maternity welfare centers, by prohibiting juvenile labor, by increasing physical fitness through the introduction of compulsory games and gymnastics, and by the greatest possible encouragement of associations concerned with the physical education of the young.~socialist If this was for all poor children in Germany, then it was an Ok idea.
22. We demand the abolition of the regular army and the creation of a national (folk) army.~socialist Hmm they got it wrong here, as they should always have had a need to keep the regular army, while creating a nation guard as we have. It would have been sufficient.
23. We demand that there be a legal campaign against those who propagate deliberate political lies and disseminate them through the press. In order to make possible the creation of a german press, we demand:
(a) all editors and their assistants on newspapers published in the german language shall be german citizens.
(b) non-german newspapers shall only be published with the express permission of the state. They must not be published in the german language? They should have been published in the German language more so than in a non-German language, and this for security purposes.
(c) all financial interests in or in any way affecting german newspapers shall be forbidden to non-germans by law, and we demand that the punishment for transgressing this law be the immediate suppression of the newspaper and the expulsion of the non-germans from the reich. Understood if a threat was found prevalent in these areas, as it had been found, was found without a doubt or had been proven time and again in such areas.
Newspapers transgressing against the common welfare shall be suppressed. We demand legal action against those tendencies in art and literature that have a disruptive influence upon the life of our folk, and that any organizations that offend against the foregoing demands shall be dissolved.~socialist This is understood also, as we have seen the destructive influence of not editing or to allowing of almost anything to infiltrate our culture here, and by what it is doing or has been doing to our culture here. It doesn't say prohibit the papers from operating, only that if found undermining the state or the nation in any way, it would be punished for these acts by dissolving them or shutting then down.
24. We demand freedom for all religious faiths in the state, insofar as they do not endanger its existence or offend the moral and ethical sense of the germanic race.~socialist This is understood as it does not say does not allow, but does not wish that a religion, for example as with Islam to enter in or be practiced freely, where as it's practice would then undermine the German peoples religious ideals and their belief system all to the detriment of the state and it's people.
the party as such represents the point of view of a positive christianity without binding itself to any one particular confession. OK
It fights against the jewish materialist spirit ? within and without, and is convinced that a lasting recovery of our folk can only come about from within on this pinciple: So they hate wealth as it was generated or being generated by the Jews in state as individuals, placing them squarely in contradiction with the principles that Hitler had in idea of to always support and lift up Germans as a people and their nation, but this wealth being in the hands of these Jewish people he did not like, stood directly in the way of his being the author of all change that was to be German and the promotion of Germany under his command. So he figured undoubtedly that all Jews had this potential to work there way into power and wealth in which would challenge him as the leader of the pure German people and nation as he saw it, so he opted to begin the process of riding Germany of them ? WOW he had gone completely mad at this point with power.
25. In order to carry out this program we demand: The creation of a strong central authority in the state, the unconditional authority by the political central parliament of the whole state and all its organizations. ~socialist