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Omaha Steve

(99,658 posts)
Sat May 2, 2015, 08:45 PM May 2015

Anti-union? Maybe your in good company May 2, 1933


http://www.workdayminnesota.org/history/05/02

May 2, 1911
The first workers’ compensation law, providing benefits for employees injured in the workplace, was enacted in Wisconsin.

May 2, 1933


Adolph Hitler banned labor unions on his path to power.

Adolf Hitler issued an edict abolishing all labor unions. It was part of his effort to ban any opposition to his rule.

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Anti-union? Maybe your in good company May 2, 1933 (Original Post) Omaha Steve May 2015 OP
This needs to be plastered on billboards. Rod Beauvex May 2015 #1
+100. I'm going to keep this one around definitely, incredible. No, he didn't care for those appalachiablue May 2015 #2
Tax Dodger, too. Octafish May 2015 #3

appalachiablue

(41,143 posts)
2. +100. I'm going to keep this one around definitely, incredible. No, he didn't care for those
Sat May 2, 2015, 11:23 PM
May 2015

pesky, rival trade unionists at all, fascists usually don't-

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
3. Tax Dodger, too.
Sat May 2, 2015, 11:38 PM
May 2015


Hitler Dodged Taxes, Expert Finds

BBC News
12-17-4

Adolf Hitler spent years dodging taxes, accumulating enormous debts as he led his Nazi party to power, a German tax expert has revealed.

He owed the authorities 405,500 Reichsmarks (6m euros; £4m in today's money) by 1934, when as German chancellor his debts were forgiven.

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The tax office inquired how Hitler had obtained funds to buy a luxury Mercedes car while he was in prison following his abortive 1923 coup attempt.

Hitler replied that he had received a bank loan and the car "is for me just a means to an end".

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4105683.stm



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