German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler by: Turner Jr., Henry Ashby
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 504 pages, b&w illustrations. After scrutinizing the attitudes of the Nazi Party's leadership - Hitler in particular - toward economic issues and big business, the author proceeds to trace the known contacts between the Nazis and the men of big business down to the triumph of Nazism in 1933. For the first time, the story is told from both sides, employing documentation from Nazi as well as business sources. In the course of assessing the significance of financial contributions to Hitler's party, the author provides the first systematic analysis of Nazism's sources of income. Bright, clean copy.