The $6 billion man.
Hitler made $6,000,000,000 being a Nazi. Six. Billion.
Lucrative business.
That’s something you don’t think about, because of the atrocities.
Statistics. Numbers.
Hitler was a billionaire.
Real estate investment. Book royalties, image rights.
Started out a starving artist. Quite the career trajectory.
Hitler was loath to pay taxes. Had himself declared tax-exempt.
You can talk about priceless art being stolen then reclaimed. Those are human interest stories.
The finances of Nazism is a more tedious conversation.
Starving artist to $6 billion—not on a government salary.
You think of concentration camps. You think of black-and-white, emaciated violence.
Free labor. Construction, management contracts. Nazism was a business plan. A lucrative one.