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While State representatives are busily engaged in investigating and interfering, our agents and salesmen are handicapped, because they never know whether or not a sale at a higher price will mean denunciation as a ‘profiteer’ or ‘saboteur’ followed by a prison sentence.

— Günter Reimann

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The existence of a state within the State—the Party and the bureaucracy—is a phenomenon of the post-War world.

The old type of capitalist who adheres to the traditional concepts of property rights is doomed to failure under fascism.

In others cases, National Socialist officials were levying harsh fines of millions of marks for a “single bookkeeping error.”

The larger the big corporations grow and the closer they become connected with the State bureaucracy, the fewer changes there are for the rise of new competitors.

You cannot imagine how taxation has increased. Yet everyone is afraid to complain about it. The new State loans are nothing but confiscation of private property, because no one believes that the Government will ever make repayment, not even pay interest after the first few years.

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