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WILHELM R\u00d6PKE: THE ECONOMIST WHO STOOD UP TO HITLER<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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Sometimes there are men of principle who live their values and not merely speak or write about them. People who stand up to political evil at their own risk, and then go on to say and do things that help to remake their country in the aftermath of war and destruction. One such individual was the German, free-market economist, Wilhelm R\u00f6pke.<\/p>\n

Born on October 10, 1899, Wilhelm R\u00f6pke died half a century ago on February 12, 1966. It seems appropriate to mark the fifty-year passing of one of the great European economists and advocates of freedom during the last one hundreds years.<\/p>\n

In the dark days immediately following the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi movement in Germany in January 1933, R\u00f6pke refused to remain silent. He proceeded to deliver a public address in which warned his audience that Germany was in the grip of a \u201crevolt against reason, freedom and humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nazism as the Destruction of Decent Society<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nazism was the culmination of Germany\u2019s sinking into \u201dilliberal barbarism, R\u00f6pke said, the elements of which were based on: (l) \u201cservilism,\u201d a \u201clonging for state slavery,\u201d with the state becoming the \u201csubject of unparalleled idolatry\u201d; (2) \u201cirrationalism,\u201d in which \u201dvoices\u201d in the air called for the German people to be guided by \u201cblood,\u201d \u201csoil,\u201d and a \u201cstorm of destructive and unruly emotions\u201d; and (3) \u201cbrutalism,\u201d in which \u201cThe beast of prey in man is extolled with unexampled cynicism, and with equal cynicism every immoral and brutal act is justified by the sanctity of the political end.\u201d R\u00f6pke warned that, \u201ca nation that yields to brutalism thereby excludes itself from the community of Western civilization.\u201d He hoped Germany would step back from this abyss before its people had to learn their mistake in the fire of war.<\/p>\n

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