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Originally Posted by Shawn D.
I I mostly agree with your statements above, but if you follow down in the answers.com links you provided (which, BTW, are clones of Wikipedia), you'll note that the Nazis imposed state ownership of corporations, which I wouldn't call being "true capitalists."
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They were not democratic capitalists but fascist capitalists. This is from
http://www.answers.com/topic/nazi-germany
Most industry was not nationalized; however, industry was closely regulated with quotas and requirements to use domestic resources.[citation needed] These regulations were set by administrative committees composed of government and business officials. Competition was limited as major companies were organized into cartels through these administrative committees. Selective nationalization was used against businesses that failed to agree to these arrangements.[citation needed] The banks, which had been nationalized by the Weimar Republic, were returned to their owners and each administrative committee had a bank as member to finance the schemes.
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Remember they were gearing up for war and if you didnt do what they wanted, they got rid of you, they were fascists after all. The way they conducted their economy was very much along the lines of their philosophy of national socialism, which to them meant putting the nation's needs first, not to be confused with a modern definition of socialism.