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Hitler and the German Coal Industrialists: Passing the Keys to A Kingdom

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  • Karsten Heinz Schönbach

    (Free University of Berlin)

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Ever since the publication of Henry Turner's German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler, most histo-rians in both Germany and the United States have dismissed the idea that support from German major industry played a key role in bringing Hitler to power. This consensus is wrong, as I have shown in a series of works that began with my doctoral dissertation at the Free University of Berlin and now extends to more than ten different works, including two books. These works rely extensively on ar-chival resources that were either inaccessible or only selectively open to earlier researchers. This paper analyzes in detail one of the most crucial episodes in Hitler's rise to power – one that pre-vious historians, particularly Turner, have profoundly misjudged thanks in part at least to the short-comings in the documentary sources available to them. This is the history of the political relations be-tween Hitler, the NSDAP leadership, and the German "coal industrialists" in the period from 1926 to 1933 and the key role these firms played in supporting and financing the eventual Nazi triumph.

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  • Karsten Heinz Schönbach, 2024. "Hitler and the German Coal Industrialists: Passing the Keys to A Kingdom," Working Papers Series inetwp230, Institute for New Economic Thinking.
    • Handle: RePEc:thk:wpaper:inetwp230
    DOI: 10.36687/inetwp230
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    Keywords

    German Coal Industry; Great Depression; Rise of Nazis; Germany Economic History;
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    JEL classification:

    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
    • J52 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Dispute Resolution: Strikes, Arbitration, and Mediation
    • N14 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Europe: 1913-
    • N34 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Europe: 1913-
    • N54 - Economic History - - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Extractive Industries - - - Europe: 1913-
    • N64 - Economic History - - Manufacturing and Construction - - - Europe: 1913-
    • P12 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Enterprises

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