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TL;DR: Hitler demanded that he do as Hitler wanted. The central banker said No and claimed the law protected his institutional independence. Hitler acknowledged
by southernplaces7 1y ago
TL;DR: Hitler demanded that he do as Hitler wanted. The central banker said No and claimed the law protected his institutional independence. Hitler acknowledged this, but said that he'd just get rid of him extra-legally. The fearful central banker resigned his post in less than 2 months after Hitler became chancellor, got himself fobbed off to an ambassadorship in which he humiliatingly spent time propagandizing on the Nazis behalf, and was replaced at the central bank by a Hitler Lackey who did as Hitler wanted.
Fin.
The headline implies a vigorous resistance to authoritarian control, that didn't at all happen.
- linksnapzz 1y ago..a Hitler lackey who, ironically, ended up in Dachau as a suspect in the assassination attempt on Hitler.
- southernplaces7 1y agoI guess he too finally lost a bit of that lackey blindness after also being fired in 1939.