Farben, Flick, Krupp, Siemens, and many others. German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler takes us through the major corporate archives of Weimar and Nazi Germany and inside the executive offices of the giants of Germany industry-I. And the evidence that leads him to his startlingĬonclusion-that big business did not, on balance, support Hitler's political program-overthrows many of our conventional ideas about the rise of Hitler's regime. In the pages of this groundbreaking book, Henry Ashby Turner, Jr., shows us that these records do indeed exist. Astonishingly, this subject has never been adequately explored-and until now it wasĬommonly believed that the records that might throw light on this important connection had been either lost or destroyed. Did big business play a crucial role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power? Did German capitalists undermine the Weimaqr Republic, finance the Nazi Party, and use their influence on behalf of Hitler's appointment to the chancellorship of Germany? For half a century, such charges as these have been repeatedly made, and today one of the most widely held explanations for the Third R Did big business play a crucial role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power? Did German capitalists undermine the Weimaqr Republic, finance the Nazi Party, and use their influence on behalf of Hitler's appointment to the chancellorship of Germany?įor half a century, such charges as these have been repeatedly made, and today one of the most widely held explanations for the Third Reich's origins places prime responsibility on Germany's leading corporations.
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