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The Bank of England was nationalized.
The U.S. Army introduced the early computer ENIAC, which calculated rocket trajectories.
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Nazi Party members attending the Bamberg Conference approved Hitler's motion to make his position absolute, thereby establishing the Führerprinzip.
The Trump administration essentially operates under the same principal, and indeed is run in much the same way.
The conference also ended inter party feuding, which had existed up to that point and which in fact would for some time.
The conference also confirmed its 1920 twenty-five point program.
The program of the National‑Socialist German Workers’ Party is a schedule. The leaders refuse to draft new goals after the ones listed in the program are achieved, solely for the purpose of enabling the party to continue to exist by artificially increasing the dissatisfaction of the masses.
1. We demand the union of all Germans to form a Greater Germany on the basis of the people’s right to self-determination.
2. We demand equality of rights for the German people with other nations; and abolition of the peace treaties of Versailles and St. Germain.
3. We demand land and soil (colonies) for the sustenance of our people and settlement of our surplus population.
4. None but members of the Volk (a people; large tribe) may be citizens of the state. None but those of German blood, whatever their creed, may be members of the Volk. No Jew, therefore, may be a member of the Volk.
5. Whoever has no citizenship is to be able to live in Germany only as a guest and must be regarded as being subject to foreign laws.
6. The right of voting on the state's government and legislation is to be enjoyed by the citizen of the state alone. We demand therefore that all official appointments, of whatever kind, shall be granted to citizens of the state alone. We oppose the corrupting custom of parliament of filling posts merely with a view to party considerations, and without reference to character or capability.
7. We demand that the state commit itself to providing, first and foremost, opportunities for its citizens to earn a living and make a life for themselves. If it is not possible to feed the entire population of the state, then members of foreign nations (non-citizens) must be expelled from the Reich.
8. All further immigration of non-Germans must be prevented. We demand that all non-Germans, who have immigrated to Germany since 2 August 1914, be forced immediately to leave the Reich.
9. All citizens must have equal rights and obligations.
10. The first obligation of every citizen must be to work, either mentally or physically. The activities of the individual must not conflict with the interests of the general public, but must be carried out within the framework of the whole and for the benefit of all. We therefore demand:
11. Abolition of work-free and effortless income. Breaking of interest-slavery.
12. In consideration of the monstrous sacrifice of life and property that each war demands of the people, personal enrichment due to a war must be regarded as a crime against the people. Therefore, we demand ruthless confiscation of all war profits.
13. We demand nationalization of all businesses which have been up to the present formed into companies (trusts).
14. We demand that the profits of large companies shall be shared out.
15. We demand an expansion on a large scale of old age welfare.
16. We demand the creation of a healthy middle class and its conservation, immediate communalization of the great warehouses and their being leased at low cost to small firms, the utmost consideration of all small firms in contracts with the state, county or municipality.
17. We demand land reform adapted to our national needs, the creation of a law for the expropriation of land for public purposes without compensation. Abolition of land tax and prevention of all land speculation.
18. We demand struggle without consideration against those whose activity is injurious to the general interest. Common national criminals, usurers, profiteers and so forth are to be punished with death, without consideration of confession or race.
19. We demand the replacement of Roman Law, which serves the materialistic world order, with a German common law.
20. In order to enable every capable and hard-working German to attain higher education and thus enter into leading positions, the state must ensure the thorough expansion of our entire public education system. The curricula of all educational institutions must be adapted to the requirements of practical life. An understanding of the concept of the state must be achieved from the very beginning of schooling (civics). We demand that children of poor parents who are particularly gifted intellectually be educated at the expense of the state, regardless of their parents' social status or occupation.
21. The state must ensure the improvement of public health by protecting mothers and children, by prohibiting juvenile labor, by promoting physical fitness through the legal establishment of compulsory gymnastics and sports, and by providing the greatest possible support to all associations involved in physical education for young people.
22. We demand abolition of the mercenary troops and formation of a national army.
23. We demand legal action against deliberate political lies and their dissemination by the press. In order to enable the creation of a German press, we demand that:
a. All editors and employees of newspapers published in the German language must be members of the race;
b. Non-German newspapers be required to have the express permission of the state to be published. They may not be printed in the German language;
c. Non-Germans are forbidden by law any financial interest in German publications or any influence on them and as punishment for violations the closing of such a publication as well as the immediate expulsion from the Reich of the non-German concerned. Publications which are counter to the common good are to be forbidden. We demand legal prosecution of artistic and literary forms which exert a destructive influence on our national life and the closure of events that violate the above demands.
24. We demand freedom of religion for all religious denominations within the state so long as they do not endanger its existence or oppose the moral senses of the Germanic race. The party as such advocates the standpoint of a positive Christianity without binding itself confessionally to any particular denomination. It combats the Jewish-materialistic spirit within and outside us and is convinced that a lasting recovery of our people can only come about from within, on the basis of:
Public Interest Over Self-Interest
25. For the execution of all of this we demand the formation of a strong central power in the Reich. Unconditional authority of the central parliament over the whole Reich and its organizations in general. The formation of corporative chambers and professional chambers for the execution of the laws made by the Reich within the various states of the confederation.
The leaders of the party promise to stand up for the execution of the above points ruthlessly, if necessary at the cost of their own lives.
Munich, February 24, 1920 — signed Adolf Hitler.
In 1928 an item that was causing controversy was amended:
In response to the mendacious interpretations of point 17 of the NSDAP program by our opponents, the following statement is necessary:
“Since the NSDAP stands on the principle of private property, it goes without saying that the passage ‘expropriation without compensation’ refers only to the creation of legal possibilities to expropriate land that has been acquired unlawfully or is not managed in accordance with the interests of the people, if necessary. This is therefore directed primarily against Jewish real estate speculation companies.”
Munich, April 13, 1928 — signed Adolf Hitler.
It's interesting reading in that you could see where the NASDP was headed, but they were not there yet. It's also interesting to read how much of MAGA would be comfortable with this, although they wouldn't be comfortable with all of it. The NASDP was a populist party.
At this point, I frankly don't think a lot of the MAGA rank and file, and even some of its upper ranks, would really disavow association with the Nazis all that much.
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The Russians captured Ft. Tafet.
Australian troops mutinied against conditions at Casula Camp in New South Wales.
Mexican revolutionary Petra Herrera, who fought both as a soldier and worked as a spy, was shot dead by drunken revolutionaries in a bar.
She's started off as a Villista who disguised herself as a man, and then later became an acknowledged female combatant, and later a spy.
Vietnamese rebels rose up in Saigon.
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Madero crossed back into Mexico from Texas to assume command of Mexican revolutionaries, and to evade a U.S. warrant for his arrest.
John Browning was issued a patent:
The House of Representatives approved a controversial reciprocal trade agreement between the United States and Canada, by a 221-92 margin.
Niobrara County, Wyoming, was established.
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Rebecca Bextel has accidentally done Wyomingites a huge favor:
Donor: Two checks given to Bextel were intended for pair of Wyoming Legislature’s most powerful lawmakers: Don Grasso, the donor who wrote checks that activist Rebecca Bextel distributed, identified 10 people he intended to support. Speaker of the House Chip Neiman, R-Hulett, and Wyoming Freedom Caucus leader Rep. John Bear, R-Gillette, were among them. It's unknown whether either received their intended $1,500.
Her blunder in dispensing checks on the legislative floor reveals something that people tracking things should already know. We have our current populist regime in the legislature due to carpetbagger cash, although the amounts handed out here were not huge.
And the recipients?
I’ve been involved in the Freedom Caucus, both nationally and within the state, and I know these people. I’ve gotten involved and think they are good people.
Grasso.
Cosmetic surgery, save for genuine restorative purposes, or genuine medical reasons, ought to be banned.
People who claim to be "Constitutional Lawyers" are no such thing, unless they are public defenders. Anyone claiming that title, who isn't, should be sentenced to a term of being a public defender in Dayton, Ohio for their natural lives, plus twenty years.
Seriously, that's a flaming bullshit claim. Ain't no such thing.
If you look like you are 30, when you are 60, due to cosmetic surgery, you are a deeply insecure weenie.
If you are male, and live in a rural area, and don't hunt or fish seriously, you are an insecure weenie and should move to Greenwich Village.
Boxing is a brutal sport, but it's beautiful.
Fleetwood Mac seriously sucks. Of their songs that suck, Landslide sucks the most.
A twenty something single man giving a lecture on "the fertility crisis" is a freakin' joke. Geez man, get married and get a real job.
If you have to think about the hairstyle a man is evidencing, he's a weenie.
If a man has perfectly combed hair at all times (think Mike Johnson), he's a weenie.
Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior since 1933, resigned in protest after President Truman said that Ickes could have been "wrong" in testimony given to a U.S. Senate committee about Truman's nominee for Undersecretary of the Navy.
Ickes wrote to Truman saying, in part; "I cannot stay on when you, in effect, have expressed a lack of confidence in me."
His overall resignation letter was some 2,000 words in length and reflected a growing dispute with Truman. Ickes was known for his combative nature.
Ickes had been appointed to the position by Franklin Roosevelt at a time at which the largely unknown Ickes was a progressive Republican. Under Roosevelt, he was also head of the Public Works Administration. He'd come up almost out of nowhere at the time as he'd not been nationally known at the time of his appointment, and was already 59 years old. He was over 70 years old at the time of his resignation.
He also had an unusual personal life. He'd married divorcee Anna Wilmarth Thompson in 1911, who was just about his own age. They had one son, and he was the stepfather to her two children by a prior marriage. They also had an adopted son. She was killed in an automobile accident in 1937. His adopted son Wilmarth killed himself on the anniversary of her death a year later.
At age 64 he remarried 25 year old Jane Dahlman, the younger sister of his adopted son's wife. The couple had two more children, one of whom became Deputy Chief of Staff under Bill Clinton.
The Calles government in Mexico ordered all Catholic schools to close.
This is no longer the case and Catholic schools are once again common in Mexico.
The U.S. issued its first Air Mail stamp.
The Acting Secretary of State to the Governor of Texas.
Department of State,
Washington, February 13, 1911.
Your telegram of the 10th instant. Department informed by Embassy at Mexico City that Mexican Government does not just now desire to ask for permission to move troops over United States territory.
Huntington Wilson
Troops under Jose Luis Moya took Durango. 55 years old, and therefore into advanced years by the standards of the day, he was an unusual example of a wealthy man who joined the revolution. He'd lose his life in its service in May, 1911.
Today In Wyoming's History: February 13: 1911 Campbell County created.
A coal and hydrocarbons producing county, the population of the county has grown by a factor of nearly ten since my birth, and doubled since I graduated from high school. I vividly recall going there for swim meets in the late 70s and early 80s at which time it was an incredibly rough county.
Nicaragua's President Juan José Estrada declared martial law after an explosion in Managua destroyed a large quantity of arms and ammunition.
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William McKinley was formally declared the winner of the 1900 Presidential election, as a joint session of United States Congress witnessed the formal counting of the electoral votes.
Hmmm. . . seems like that went so smoothly.
Today In Wyoming's History: February 13: ..1901 Stinkingwater River renamed the Shoshone River.
German troops fired on civilians at Youngqing, China.
African sleeping sickness was first noticed by British missionary doctors J. Howard Cook and Albert Cook.
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A person who will be regarded as a complete stooge.
Of course it starts with White Flash Jordan, a man who doesn't know how to wear a sports coat.
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