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Stephen Fry released a statement: "Elon Musk is not a Nazi. Nazis make really good cars." (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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What's great about this, and Stephen Fry is brilliant, is not that he's absolving Musk, or that he's criticizing Tesla, but that it is an argument likely leading to Elon Musk protesting,

'No, my cars are good enough that I can be a Nazi!'

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[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Germany didn't really have much wealth after WW1 due to the restrictions placed on them from the western powers.

Most of the reason the Nazi party was popular early on was them championing a number of socialist policies designed to bring the country out an economic morass.

This is a really good book on the subject (and part of a really good trilogy of books about understanding Nazi Germany): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/319473.The_Coming_of_the_Third_Reich