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Die Heimat and III. Weg both still call for Hitlerite Kraft durch Freude and other programs solely benefiting the "ethnic German worker".
Yes, but none of that will be implemented if the goddamn Nazis take over the government. IMO they are even worse now: in the Third Reich, these programs actually existed - even if they didn't serve the population, of course, but rather the military buildup.
The best example for how Nazis act now is Trump and his henchmen: These crooks are arming themselves too (the budget for the guy's secret police force (ICE - for fighting a civil war if needed) is set at an astronomical 75 billion), but it's not the state that's paying for it; it's being financed through not even well-hidden tax increases (tariffs, which are nothing more than an increase in value added tax). So: no cheap workers' housing estates, no "Kraft durch Freude" (there were holiday home estates for workers on Sylt, where today the high society vacations), but even worse living conditions for the idiots who voted for Trump.
Please don't get me wrong: I'm not saying that anything about the NSDAP was even remotely desirable. I'm saying that the MAGA Nazis and their equivalent in Germany, the AfD, are even worse when it comes to the lie that these parties are fighting for "the little people."