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Nazi billionaires, capitalist ethics, and other notable contradictions

The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth

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The Wealth of the Third Reich

Friedrich Flick retools his steel factories into mass weapon factories. Gunter Krot also becomes one of the largest profiteers through weapons manufacturing. The sums going through these firms are like percentages of GDP. This is very, very significant spending. How rich do these families becoming this period? I mean, it is very much,. I mean, they're already rich to begin.

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