{"id":101971,"date":"2026-04-19T04:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T08:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=101971"},"modified":"2026-04-18T19:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T23:42:33","slug":"how-to-tank-the-economy-for-war-death-of-democracy-12-q4-1935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/04\/19\/how-to-tank-the-economy-for-war-death-of-democracy-12-q4-1935\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Tank the Economy for War &#8211; Death of Democracy 12 &#8211; Q4 1935"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/txT_ucJWNMk?si=D9O3heQ52IJiY8WZ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>World War Two<\/strong> and <strong>Spartacus Olsson<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 18 Apr 2026<\/p>\n<p>Nazi Germany in late 1935 was becoming more ruthless, more militarized, and more dangerous. In this episode, Spartacus Olsson reports from Berlin on the final months of 1935, when Hitler&#8217;s regime tightened its grip through food shortages, propaganda, rearmament, and the continued implementation of the Nuremberg Laws. As ordinary Germans faced rising prices, scarce meat and butter, and mounting pressure to sacrifice for the Reich, the Nazi state pushed its &#8220;guns before butter&#8221; economy even further. We examine the &#8220;fat gap&#8221;, Winter Relief, <em>Eintopfsonntag<\/em>, and the growing burden placed on German families while resources were diverted to war preparation.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the First Supplementary Decree to the <em>Reich Citizenship Law<\/em> gave the regime a bureaucratic definition of who counted as a Jew, accelerating exclusion, dismissal, and persecution. Courts, police, and the Gestapo increasingly enforced the racist order, while Goebbels&#8217; propaganda machine worked to normalize hardship, suppress criticism, and intensify antisemitism.<\/p>\n<p>Against the backdrop of Mussolini&#8217;s invasion of Abyssinia and the paralysis of the League of Nations, Hitler found new room to maneuver internationally while consolidating dictatorship at home. This episode explores how the Third Reich turned scarcity into discipline, prejudice into law, and national pride into obedience \u2014 bringing Germany one step closer to catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>Never Forget.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World War Two and Spartacus Olsson Published 18 Apr 2026 Nazi Germany in late 1935 was becoming more ruthless, more militarized, and more dangerous. 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