Nazi Germany with a Free Market System?

Third Reich with a Free Market System?

  • High Economic Potential

    Votes: 5 8.5%
  • Medium Economic Potential

    Votes: 12 20.3%
  • Low Economic Potential

    Votes: 12 20.3%
  • A Disaster if Implemented

    Votes: 30 50.8%

  • Total voters
    59

Nestor

Banned

Hitler spewed a lot of anticapitalist rhetoric, but his policies as Führer weren't really anticapitalist. But they aren't really free market either as there was a significant degree of government intervention. Unfortunately these days capitalism has been conflated with the free market so anything that isn't laissez faire free market capitalism isn't actually capitalism but statist leftwing socialism.
 
that shows the economy was on the rise from the great depression before Hitler took full power. Nothing special about the way the nazis handled the economy.

Indeed, they were not anti-capitalist. But that doesn't make them laissez-faire either. In fact the government took very much control of the work atmosphere of factories.

Didn't they de facto nationalise a lot of industries?
 
Didn't they de facto nationalise a lot of industries?

of course. especially the heavy industry related to the rearmament. Smaller businesses were kept under control through the so called "Council of Trusts". Which were ironically a lot like Soviet working councils.
 

tenthring

Banned
Free markets have the word "free" in them. Private business in Germany wasn't very private. Someone's name was listed as the owner, but prices, wages, production, employment, etc were heavily dictated by the central government. Not very free. On paper they made a lot of money, but they weren't allowed to take much out as dividends, and a lot of the paper wealth was from money/debt printing.
 
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