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.
And that is precisely what big business and big government is trying to do now.
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 3/18/02 3:10 PM Pacific by Brad Cloven
Well it does seem that Kristallnacht would indicate that the businesses were privately owned. Destroying state property would have been self-defeatist for the state.
I would also agree that by 1939 there may have been governmental interventions. At some point they certain would have been expected as the war ensued.
I'm not sure that the word Socialist in the name of Germany was as indicative of it's true nature as one might think. It's my thought that capitalism did exist until the mid to late 1930s. It may have survived into the 1940s.