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The History of the Hitler Youth Main Building

The Americans introduced consumer credit in the 1920s. This is why the Great Depression was as bad as it was. For the first time ever, consumers had debts,. Had credit, right? Hey, right. The reason that this iswhy the Great Depression, the first store card then, exactly. So you go into this, this huge building. And it was the first American style department store in Europe - run by two guys who happen to be Jewish. Then of course, Hitler gets into power in 1933. They have a thing called the Aryanization of Businesses. If there's a Jewish owner, they kicked them out. Both of them died very soon after arriving in America.

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