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Old May 13th, 2012 #1
Alex Linder
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Default Nazi Party and Big Business

For this afternoon, Walter Funk, (Hitler's connection to the big industiralists) had invited the two leading men of the Allianz, whose headquarters were opposite the Hotel Kaiserhof (where Hitler lived), Dr Schimtt and von Finck. When the they came in at four o'clock Hitler explained his thinking. Then there was a short discussion, which made it clear that both gentlemen, in view of the impossibility of solving the unemployment problem, saw the political situation as being very dark, and therefore anticipated a great shift to the left. Funk went out with them and came back five minutes later with the message that Allianz would make five million Marks available. HItler was for a moment speechless. When Funk had left, Hitler asked whether I had anticipated such sums. When I said yes, he said "There you just see the power that big business has. Because these millions are power. And when they make these millions available to us, they cannot at the same time make them available to another party or organisation. So they are giving us their power!"


Diary of Otto Wagener, Hitler's finaincial adviser, mid 1931