The trend toward soaking business and the wealthy gained further momentum in the fiscal year 1942-43. The disproportionately large increase in domestic tax revenues that year can be traced to the state’s imposing the so-called estate inflation tax.

— Götz Aly Hitler’s Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State (2007)

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