I'm quoting liberally because 1) author is dead 2) long since out of print 3) it's governent war propaganda anyway.
You Can't Do Business With Hitler: What a Nazi Victory Would Mean To Every American
1942 Revised Edition. Little, Brown & Co., 172 pages.
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There is no point in discussing whether Germany is socialistic because all capital is at the immediate disposal of the government...The government does not need to confiscate the property of large industrial firms. An official needs only to suggest that a gift of a certain sum would be in order and the hint does not need to be made twice.
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A large American company owns a plant in Berlin which is now making such articles as tiny hidden microphones [and] small portable television sending apparatus....When the president [and] other American representatives visited Berlin, they were not even allowed to enter the plant which they were nominally supposed to own.
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[L]arge signs were placed at the polling places which read, "Patriotic Germans are proud to show how they vote." Ballots were marked accordingly at an open table with the Secret Police looking on. There was no place on the ballot for a vote of "No." The only way to show dissension was to mutilate the ballot. In case such methods do not produce 100% results, there is no doubt that Dr. Goebbels is prefectly prepared to supply the required election figures as needed. In fact, in some German elections there were more "Yes" votes recorded in certain areas than the number of voters in residence.
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Alfred Rosenberg, in his book The Myth of the Twentieth Century, explains that a pure race like the Germans have no maladjustment and no sense of sin. For them Christ becomes not only superfluous, but a degenerative influence. In other words, right and wrong are functions of race. If you belong to the proper race, whatever you do is automatically right.
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Almost every government job is paralleled by an unofficial party functionary who has no government job but is perhaps just as powerful.
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Totalitarianism is by nature parasitic and predatory. It cannot live by its own resources, but must forever consume the wealth of its neighbors... The totalitarian state that has reached its objectives will blow up from internal pressure. For this reason there is no limit to be put on Hitler's aggression. He dare not demobilize his armies or end his war economy.
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A knowledge of the written law is no longer of such importance as before. This gave an opportunity to Germany's lawyers to engage in the securing of permits. Since every transaction, foreign and later domestic, necessitated such documents, the legal profession quickly became procurers or fixers. The fast trains leading into Berlin from the provinces were labeled "permit trains" because they were principally occupied by legal gentlemen coming to government offices in search of those indispensible documents.
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Germany's foreign trade was no longer to be international trade but a system of parallel but separate relations with other states.
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The South African government, under pressure from domestic wool growers, sold its entire wool clip to Germany against future delivery of German locomotives, automotive equipment, and similar commodities. Unfortunately, as time elapsed the South Africans were unable to get deliveries of German automobiles at prices which were at all in line with the cars offered from the United States and other countries. German locomotive plants seemed unable to deliver equipment which would suit the South African railroads, and the export of different types of electric equipment, machinery, and tools was prohibited as these products were needed for the German army; so when twelve months had elapsed, the wool sales still remained on the books, and little had been taken by South Africa in payment. Nevertheless, the second wool clip was marketed in the same way as the first; another year saw a third clip go the way of its predecessors. Germany had obtained its wool, woven into uniforms for its army; and the South Africans are still whistling for suitable German products as payment.
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First in the years 1919-1923 they had financed themselves by selling paper marks to foreigners, hot off the printing press. Then from 1924 to 1929 they kept going by selling long-term bonds through investment banking houses. As the world depression deepened, they obtained short-term bank advances; and now when their financial credit was completely exhasted, they borrowed commodities. Dr. Schacht had realized that an honest debtor worries about his obligations and desires to keep them at a minimum; a dishonest debtor lets his creditors do the worrying for him and tries to run up his obligations as high as possible, because he is not planning to pay anyhow.
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The Nazis even insisted that contracts made with German firms should carry a printed clause to the effect that "this contract is made under National Socialist principles." No American knew what National Socialist principles were, and we were never able to find out in advance. In practice, however, this meant that the American firm was strictly bound to the contract but that the Germans were able to get out of it at any time by quoting such versions of National Socialist principles as they cared to apply at the moment.
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There is no such thing as having purely economic relations with the totalitarian states. Every business deal carries with it political, military, social, propaganda implications.
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A Swedish firm which sold goods to Germany [was] called upon to submit a complete list of its employees. These names were checked against reports from Nazi undercover agents in Sweden, and all persons whom the Nazis considered undesirable had to be fired. Otherwise the firm could not continue to sell to Germany. Such a Swedish firm was required also to submit details regarding advertising accounts and promise to drop all advertising in newspapers which carried anti-Hitler news.
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A German Foreign Office official opened his heart to me thus: "Instead of the United States we would like to deal with different areas, treating them as separate countries. We would not do much business with New York, but we would buy cotton from the country of New Orleans and sell finished goods. We would buy fruit and lumber from the country of San Fransisco and sell manufactured goods." You see what the Nazis really would like: To unify Europe and divide America.
Any products of which we had a surplus would be just the product they would not buy. For example, in the last few years the Germans put a maximum price of six cents per pound on United States cotton while at the same time they were buying cotton of inferior quality from Latin America, Africa, and Asia at nine to ten cents per pound... Nor could we expect to secure from Europe the products which we happened to want. We might find that all these items were on the Verboten list. Recently the Nazis have not been willing to sell us what we wanted to buy in the way of scientific instruments, Diesel engines, and certain types of factory installations. On the other hand, they set up a list of 253 special items - largely small handmade things like Christmas-tree ornaments and novelty goods - that we could buy, provided they were paid for in dollars and not in marks.
We know that the Nazis offered a few years ago to equip the forts of the Dardanelles with artillery free of charge, just to get German equipment used by the Turks. Over in this hemisphere, German planes have been carrying the mail free of charge in some parts of the Western Coast of South America, in order to cut out the service of Pan-American Airways...
I remember years ago when the National Bank of Afghanistan approached me in order to obtain army trucks, ambulances, staff cars, and similar equipment. They preferred to buy from the United States at high prices rather than take Soviet materials which were practically a gift. I remember how the government of Abyssinia tried to interest American firms in constructing a radio station in Addis Ababa. They would rather pay market prices for our radio equipment than take cheaper Italian apparatus, staffed and serviced by Italian engineers. Both these little countries suspected that totalitarian powers had only military objectives in mind when they made apparently generous offers to supply goods cheaply. I well remember how the War Departments in Bulgaria, in Estonia, and in Lithuania tried to get me to interest American machine-tool manufacturers in building factories in those countries for the manufacture of machine guns, rifles, and anti-aircraft guns. It was not a question of price. They did not want their countries' armaments industries to be controlled by the Germans or Soviets. But the lesson for us is this: They all proved to be helpless. They were all compelled in the end to submit.
You can provide your own parallels to the present day. I think this is relevant because even if we stop the fascist