Hitler On Front Page, 1931

 

Less than a week after Germany signed the Drug Limitation Convention, financial collapse was everywhere and Hitler got front page billing in a New York daily paper.(link). 

Nor was this a one-off fluke. Germany's anti-Versailles Treaty Führer made p2 of a Connecticut daily that same day.(link) NOT shown were the real culprits: President Herbert Hoover, Narcotics Commissioner Harry Anslinger, Rep. Hamilton Fish Jr. and the League of Nations Opium Advisory Committee. Also blameworthy were ordinary citizens, duped into believing that hemp and coca leaves can produce addiction, that banning production and trade causes economic stability, and that even though poppy opiates can cause addiction, pointing loaded guns at plant-using people is reasonable, non-violent and conducive to peace, prosperity and safety. 

None of these individuals caused the German collapse of July 1931.

The cause of Hitler's sudden success was clearly spelled out in black and white in three relevant documents in 1919. Yet when was the last time you saw the Covenant of the League of Nations or Treaty of Versailles mentioned as a cause of  banking panics, stock market crashes, recessions and mass unemployment? The Covenant of the League of Nations says, in its Article 23, that Members of the League: ... (c) will entrust the League with the general supervision over the execution of agreements with regard to the traffic in women and children, and the traffic in opium and other dangerous drugs;... (link)

The Treaty of Versailles Germany was forced to sign in 1919 says the same thing in its Article 23, 

The third document directly relevant to Germany's situation in the latter half of July 1931 is the National Socialist Workers Party platform penned by Hitler in 1920, about a month after Germany signed the Versailles surrender treaty.  It demanded: 

2. We demand equality of the German people with all other nations, the abrogation of the peace treaties of Versailles and Saint-Germain. 

Abrogating the Versailles treaty would abjure Germany's prior submission to having its chemical and pharma industries controlled and hog-tied by organizations cleverly infiltrated by America's Methodist White Terror. Germans could plainly see that America's Legislative, Judicial and Executive branches were so enthralled with absolute prohibitionism through compelled abstinence that it was only a matter of time till a way was found to ban beer in Germany.  The entire world economy lay in ruins because of American-exported laws making felonies of voluntary production and trade!

In 1930 Germany and America, voters began casting ballots demanding relief from substance prohibition laws.(link)

A Maryland Senator had shown that prohibition enforcement had in nine years killed 800 of their own people--including cops, agents, customs and Treasury personnel.(link) The rate at which enforcers were being killed had grown exponentially since 1929, and every newspaper edition added fresh violent deaths to the count. Americans were as much the victims of their own 18th Amendment as Germans were victims of the Versailles pact. Who knows? By electing Hitler, German voters might lead by example and show Americans how to escape the clutches of their own dry Amendment and ever-expanding drug laws. Nobody else was offering that alternative.

Twenty-seven years ago, when I began publishing explanations of how laws banning production and trade cause economic collapse, people were puzzled, bewildered, shocked that anyone could even suggest such a thing. A search on "prohibition laws and Economic collapse" nowadays returns some 180 million hits--nearly all of them irrelevant clutter or deceptive chaff. But I'm still here, still voting libertarian. 

Good reading: The Book of Why by Judea Pearl and Dana MacKenzie.(link) It turns out that in 1981  statisticians still had no reliable tools for handling causality. One of the examples the authors take to task is the question of whether cigarette smoking does or does not cause cancer. Leaving aside the popular myth that cigarettes are addictive (opiates are, tobacco isn't), this book trots out ordinary banal facts carefully suppressed for so long that they appear startling in contrast to the ignorance and omissions we were conditioned to take for granted. All through the 1920s and 30s cigarette ads permeated papers and magazines. Like politicians today, cigarette factories pointed to their nearly identical competitors as likely culprits for coughs, sore throats and discomfort. The idea that inhaling free radicals and Polonium 210 could ever EVER do you actual harm was as alien and unheard-of as the perishable thought that making possession of beer a five-year felony with a year's pay fine might somehow harm the economy. * * *

Get the big picture in Prohibition and The Crash on Amazon Kindle in two languages. After this you’ll be able to explain to economists exactly how fanaticism and loss of freedom wrecked the U.S. economy.

Prohibition and The Crash, on Amazon Kindle (link)

ASYLUM APPLICATION FORM i589 INSTRUCTIONS IN PORTUGUESE: INSTRUÇÕES PARA O FORMULÁRIO DE ASILO i589. What we did was make the Political Asylum instructions accessible to and understandable by people accustomed to thinking in Portuguese. This costs one dollar ($1) and you can read it on a cellphone with the Kindle app.(link)

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Brazilian Sci-fi from 1926 featuring the adventures of a Rio de Janeiro man-about-town and the beautiful daughter of an elderly scientist–touting alcohol prohibition, eugenics and racial collectivism–in America’s Black President 2228 by Monteiro Lobato, translated by J Henry Phillips (link)

I also produce books and articles in Portuguese, using Brazilian historical sources at http://www.expatriotas.blogspot.com or www.amigra.us and in English at http://Libertariantranslator.wordpress.com (link)

My financial history blog, http://www.Libertrans.us, in Portuguese is Expatriotas for Brazilians, readable at www.expatriotas.blogspot.com (link)

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