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To: Brad Cloven
Are you saying that 1930s German people were not allowed to own their own businesses or do business with anyone they chose? Are you saying that all profits were given to the state, only a set salary being paid to business owners?
12 posted on 03/18/2002 1:52:58 PM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: DoughtyOne
Are you saying that 1930s German people were not allowed to own their own businesses or do business with anyone they chose? Are you saying that all profits were given to the state, only a set salary being paid to business owners?

Yes, that is what I'm saying. Kristallnacht showed only the chosen "were allowed to own their own businesses." Industries that did not conform to Nazi intent were nationalized.

As to the finer points of compensation, I am ignorant. But I'm guessing that by 1939, any sort of profits were indeed effectively confiscated for the war effort. A very few embezzling Nazis made it out of the country with lucre, but most industry was destroyed and leadership died.

14 posted on 03/18/2002 2:10:21 PM PST by Uncle Miltie
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