Hitler - at least he wasn’t a Keynesian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bernhard
What that government wished to do to their enemies, our government wishes to do to us.
Economically the Nazis were Keynesians though. Or rather, they were economic ignoramuses, which amounts to the same. They used huge stimulus spending to bubble out of the depression. It merely delayed the depression, but when the depression came back nobody noticed because the country was being bombed to rubble. To finance the war, they simply printed money. Then they fought rising prices with price cuts, resulting in shortages. Black markets during the war were in part caused by that, but the war disguised it.
From wikipedia too:
In 1926 a high-profile counterfeit scandal came to light in Hungary, when several people were arrested in the Netherlands while attempting to procure 10 million francs worth of fake French 1000-franc bills which had been produced in Hungary; after 3 years, the state-sponsored industrial scale counterfeit operation had finally collapsed. The League of Nations’ investigation found Hungary’s motives were to avenge its post-WWI territorial losses (blamed on Georges Clemenceau) and to use profits from the counterfeiting business to boost a militarist, border-revisionist ideology.
In 1943 Germany had lost the war. All kinds of pipe-dream schemes were implemented to try and stop the inevitable. Operation Berhard was one of such pipe-dreams. While it proved useful to purchase small quantities of strategic materials from neutral countries like Sweden, the bluff was quickly uncovered.
This is not the last time a foreign country tried to counterfeit currencies. The Superdollars, extremely high quality fake $100 bills are the most famous: according to many experts only a government owning advanced printing presses could have done that (Greenspan excluded of course… he did that just by pushing a button). And it’s not limited to currency. Last year two men “of Asian appearance” with Japanese passports were arrested by the Italian police on a train bound to Switzerland. Their suitcases held literally hundreds of million worth of US bonds. Very little details have emerged but it seems like the bonds were extremely high quality counterfeits. It seems like the men wanted to be caught since they boarded a train used by commuters at peak hour where two Asian men with suitcases were bound to attract the attention of the ever-wary Italian frontier police (just two words: currency smugglers). Also the Chinese government found some counterfeit gold ingots in a shipment they recieved from the US and they had assayed in Hong Kong: the ingots had a tungsten alloy core. Again this is very high-end counterfeit work. Recently there are rumors of counterfeit Krugerrand 1 oz coins of extremely high quality coming from Asia. Again this seems like the work of someone with access to government quality minting facilities.
But as good as these small time crooks are they are nothing compared to masters like Greenspan and Trichet… they never get caught!
“In 1943 Germany had lost the war”
On January 4th, 1945, Patton wrote “We can still lose this war”.
The US had planed to win the war in 1944, their plans failed miserably,
On January 5th, 1945, the Office of the Director of Intelligence of United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe, wrote to Brigadier general George C. McDonald, warning that their plans had failed, that they failed to achieve their objectives, and that they just entered a year where technological superiority would be on the German side on all aspects.
Britain, New York and the West Coast almost were nuked, V2 were things of the past, new models were already deployed on type XXI submarines (subs 20 years ahead of US technology) with equivalent to nuclear warheads, lighter, cleaner and mercury based.
And this (nuke-equivalent) weren’t the most classified weapons…
They didn’t annihilate the US because if they did, the Soviets, who they hated more would have taken the world.
You all are free to continue believing “God Bless America Stories” but please, never again say the War was lost on 1943.
Incredible how libertarians don’t believe Government unemployment statistics but believe their version of the War!
There is revisionism and there is going over the hill.
“There is revisionism and there is going over the hill.”
So mutters the coward lying to himself, so he can go to the confortably lie he was told as a child. Meanwhile in his dreams he imagines himself a brave warrior for the truth, when in fact he is being used to silence any break of truth.
Why you keep asuming you have a right to the truth?
You will have to fight for it. If you are lazy, afraid and prejudiced don’t dare to say to have investigated anything.
In which world do you live? This is not Disney, there is no honesty, no scientific principle, only lies, deceit and greed.
Even here, lots of libertarians have stated they would work for the FED, Rand rules, me, myself and my power.
If the most respected by you proclaim openly they would lie to you, why do you expect better from those who steal and slave you?
Must be “player” under a new name.