(Wiki) In April 1933, the recently installed Nazi [sic] government declared 1 May the “Day of National Work,” an official state holiday, and announced that all celebrations were to be organised by the government. Any separate celebrations by communists, social democrats or labour unions were banned. After World War II, 1 May remained a state holiday in both East and West Germany. In communist East Germany, workers were de facto required to participate in large state-organised parades on May Day. Today in Germany it is simply called “Labour Day” (Tag der Arbeit), and there are numerous demonstrations and celebrations by independent workers’ organisations. Today, Berlin witnesses yearly demonstrations on May Day, the largest organised by labour unions, political parties and others by the far left and Autonomen.
There was a wonderful book ” A [or” My “] Year in Germany ” by a British trade unionist who came out in England around 1936. This book needs to be reissued and also come out in German and other leading languages! German workers under national socialism were honored and prosperous!
This book is THAT dangerous that it has been totally delisted, flushed down the Memory Hole. It is potentially as advantageous for NS as when Lloyd George and the ex-King visited Germany, or the Berlin Olympics. It is how German workers under Hitler were 1) very happy and 2) not obsessed with Jews at all, just wanting peace and some prosperity.
This British labor leader was honestly surprised at the overwhelmingly positive situation in the “new Germany”, where, to his surprise, the workers were not at all “oppressed and exploited.” I think the copyright is expired, the book is fantastic, but I can find it nowhere, nowhere at all!!
I read it over the course of four afternoons in the Reading Room of the Boston Public Library.
My former employer, publisher Willis Carto, unfortunately showed no interest in it.
Now that I am away from Boston, I cannot locate this book online anywhere, nor even the author’s name. Since he was a leftist and an Englishman, and toward AH was very skeptical at first, this book has the highest credibility.
It is, so to speak, the book counterpart to Lloyd George’s visit to Hitler in Berchtesgaden.
He lived in Dtld for a whole year, and talked daily with the workers, visited their factories, talked to SA men, etc.
New houses for workers under Hitler
…..See also
The national-socialist revolution: honoring labor, not surrendering to capital
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