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"We Hired Hitler!"

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From: Myths of Modern History

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This chapter explores the rise of fascism in Europe, highlighting the fact that Europe’s upper class used its wealth and influence to create fascist movements everywhere and to bring fascists to power whenever this proved possible– namely via intrigues and coups d’état. It discusses fascism in Germany and Italy in particular, antisemitism, and Hitler’s rise to power. It debunks the popular conception that Hitler managed to come to power in 1933 thanks to the support of the German people; it proposes, instead, that Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 was made possible by major financial and other assistance from Germany’s industrialists and bankers and the country’s elite in general.

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Jacques R. Pauwels

Jacques R. Pauwels has taught European history at a number of universities in Ontario, including York, Waterloo and Guelph. He is the author of The Great Class War 1914–1918, Big Business and Hitler and The Myth of the Good War, revisionist histories of the rise of fascism and the World Wars. His books are read around the world and have been published in French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, Russian, Turkish and Korean. An independent scholar, Pauwels holds PhDs in history (York) as well as political science (U of T). He lives in Brantford, Ontario.