Günter Reimann: Private

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“You cannot imagine how taxation has increased. Yet everyone is afraid to complain about it. The new State loans are nothing but confiscation of private property, because no one believes that the Government will ever make repayment, not even pay interest after the first few years.”

Günter Reimann

Source: The Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism, 2014, p. 7 (letter from a German businessman)

“A foreign visitor to the Berlin Stock Exchange would easily be deceived. There are announcements of daily quotations and price changes as though a free Stock Exchanged still existed, but nowhere would he find the former ‘public’— private buyers and sellers—as represented by independent brokers, bankers and ‘visitors.”

Günter Reimann

Source: The Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism, 2014, p. 178

“[F]ascism is a new brand of feudalism in which the private capitalist has become merely a tool of the State—where absolute power has entirely taken the place of money power.”

Günter Reimann

Source: The Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism, 2014, p. 28

“The slightest formal mistake was punishable with tremendous penalties. A fine of millions of marks was imposed for a single bookkeeping error. Obviously, the [Nazi] examination of the books was simply a pretext for partial expropriation of the private capitalist with a view to complete expropriation and seizure of the desired property later.”

Günter Reimann

Source: The Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism, 2014, p. 12