“By exploiting material wealth confiscated and plundered in a racial war, Hitler’s National Socialism achieved an unprecedented level of economic equality and created vast new opportunities for upward mobility for the German people.”

—  Götz Aly

Source: Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State (2007), pp. 7-8

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