"For Bolshevism, poverty and a low standard of living is the ideal. It is the world view of those who have become accustomed to a lack of needs through long periods of unemployment. It is a fact that people of low racial status have to be forced into culture. […] In addition, these people feel more in solidarity with equally lowly people from other nations than with their own people. A culture has already perished once because of the ideal of poverty. WHEN CHRISTIANITY PREACHED VOLUNTARY POVERTY, antiquity had to perish.
- Adolf Hitler, speech to military commanders in 1933