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Bera, Matt
Lobbying Hitler, 01/2016Book Chapter
Neither Jakob Reichert nor Karl Lange supported the Nazi Party before 1933 or took any active steps to promote or aid it. They bear none of the direct responsibility for the financing or support of the NSDAP that Turner quantified in German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler.¹ Their beliefs, hopes and ideals are a more complicated matter. Reichert in particular shared a number of key ideas with the Party. He distrusted or opposed democracy, aligned himself with the far right in major political debates, mercilessly attacked social democracy and the left in general, and espoused a vision of
