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Indeed, many businessmen seem on the evidence to have been wary of the closet anti-capitalism of the rank-and-file Nazis.
War and Economy in the Third Reich (1994)
Göring industrial empire represented, in this sense, one of the major steps towards restricting private industrial capitalism and substituting a ‘völkisch’, state-run industrial economy.
War and Economy in the Third Reich (1994)
Nazi political hegemony in the end prevented German capitalists from acting as capitalists.
War and Economy in the Third Reich (1994)
The [Nazi] regime was also able to use the state-owned multi-nationals as a ‘battering ram’ for entering economies that were not occupied territory.
War and Economy in the Third Reich (1994)
Hitler was ‘an enemy of free-market economics’ and a ‘reluctant dirigiste.’
War and Economy in the Third Reich (1994)
In a remark made in 1932 to Otto Wagener, one of the party’s economic experts, Hitler observed that the business bourgeoisie “know nothing except their profit. ‘Fatherland’ is only a word for them.”
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia (2004)
During the years that followed, Hitler and the Nazi movement were anything but the tools of German big business.
War and Economy in the Third Reich (1994)
The outcome [of the Nazi economy] was a command economy, governed by military priorities, but run by a coalition of state officials, soldiers, party hacks and industrial technocrats.
War and Economy in the Third Reich (1994)
Historians now debate whether Britain had a ‘managed economy’ by 1939, the very term—die gelenkte wirtschaft—adopted by German economists in the 1930s to describe the Nazi economy.
War and Economy in the Third Reich (1994)
In the long run the [Nazi] movement was moving to a position in which the economic New Order would be controlled by the Party through a bureaucratic apparatus staffed by technical experts and dominated by political interests, not unlike the system that had already been built up in the Soviet Union.
War and Economy in the Third Reich (1994)
It has been estimated that about one-fifth of Nazi voters and members were drawn from the manual work-force. After 1933 the number of workers in the Nazi Party went up, a product of opportunism perhaps as much as conviction.
The Nazi economic recovery 1931-1938 (1996)
Industry was regarded entirely instrumentally by party, state and military, in terms of its ability to provide the sinews of war… The business community was characterized by a defensive opportunism in the face of state power.
War and Economy in the Third Reich (1994)
Some big businessmen did contribute to the Nazi election funds but German capitalism cannot be regarded, on the evidence, as having collectively brought fascism to power in any direct sense. Fascism in Germany was a mass movement brought to power through collusion with a bankrupt but traditional elite, not as the puppet of big business.
The Nazi economic recovery 1931-1938 (1996)