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He was an authoritarian. Just as most democrat and republican politicians are today. They believe in the power of the majority and power of the state over the individual, get used to it.
Hitler didn't abolish unions - he banned all non-Nazi unions.
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As things stand today, the trade unions in my opinion cannot be dispensed with. On the contrary, they are among the most important institutions of the nation's economic life. Their significance lies not only in the social and political field, but even more in the general field of national politics. A people whose broad masses, through a sound trade-union movement, obtain the satisfaction of their living requirements and at the same time an education, will be tremendously strengthened in its power of resistance in the struggle for existence.
Above all, the trade unions are necessary as foundation stones of the future economic parliament or chambers of estates.
Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf: The Trade Union Question (http://www.crusader.net/texts/mk/mkv2ch12.html - broken link)
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The German Labour Front (German: Deutsche Arbeitsfront, DAF) was the National Socialist (Nazi) trade union organisation which replaced the Weimar Republic trade unions...
Hitler didn't abolish unions - he banned all non-Nazi unions.
Nice spin. That pretty much meant he banned all trade unions. Talk is cheap, action is not. He would have also banned the Wisconsin teachers union since they are not nazi's.
Why do people think communists support unions? Remember Solidarity? I don't remember the communists giving them much support. The communists didn't allow noncommunist trade unions, Hitler didn't allow non-Nazi unions.
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