Vampire economy
""The Vampire Economy" (Günther Reimann, 1939) — the book everyone cites to prove "Nazis hated capitalism." A myth, per Haz in debate.
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An opponent claimed the Germans "waged a crusade against global capitalism":
> "This is the vampire economy myth. This is not true. This is something that was debunked... The Reichsmarks and the entire German military-industrial complex was based in debt, and the only way the debt could be paid off was from the resources plundered from Eastern Europe."
The substance
The "anti-capitalist Nazi" reading cherry-picks business complaints while ignoring what happened: privatized state holdings ("reprivatization" was coined for Nazi Germany), guaranteed profits, crushed labor, rearmament financed by Mefo-bill debt serviced through planned plunder. Nazism wasn't anti-capitalism — it was capitalism in emergency command form: capital's command preserved, its risks socialized, its contradictions exported into war (Gottfried Feder, Red-Fascism).