So big today looms Adolf Hitler in the minds of Europe’s statesmen that Der Führer’s habit of always picking Saturday as the time suddenly to throw his weight about has caused the Continent’s major stock exchanges to remain closed every Saturday—just in case the No.1 Nazi should upset prices.
Yeah. He had the government pay him 50 million marks to use his picture on the postage stamps, made royalties from Mein Kampf which were state mandated to newlyweds and otherwise, had the government write off and exempt him from paying taxes, on top of getting industrialists to pay him about 100 million marks annually as direct tribute, basically.
Trump is so closely doing the same thing, especially with the direct cypto-donations to him by the rich lately.
Everyone was so focused on Hitler’s grand ambitions of genocide that they overlooked his petty grifting.