The Nazis and the Nazi Party

Walther Funk was a German economist and future Reich minister for economic affairs under the Nazis. He testified at Nuremberg that several of his industrialist friends, especially those prominent and big Reinland mining concerns, had urged him to join the Nazi movement. Their goal was the suppression of labor unions and an end to the Weimar government's equivalent of a minimum wage. The Fuhrer personally stressed time and again during talks with me and industrial leaders to whom I had introduced him that he considered free enterprise and competition as absolutely necessary in order to gain the highest possible production.