"By then Hitler no longer needed either Hugenberg’s corporate contacts or his Reichstag delegates.

The bankers and industrialists who had once shunned the crass, divisive, right-wing extremist had gradually come to embrace him as a bulwark against the pro-union Social Democrats and the virulently anti-capitalist Communists.

Six months earlier, three weeks before Hitler’s appointment as chancellor, the banker Kurt Baron von Schröder had met ...

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