Vampire economy
The vampire economy is the title of Günter Reimann's 1939 insider study of Nazi Germany's economy (The Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism), documenting how the Third Reich's corporatist apparatus strangled private business through controls, party extortion, and forced cartels while enriching the regime and its cronies.
Content
Reimann (a German communist economist who fled in 1933) showed that "private property" persisted in name while owners lost all autonomy: price controls, raw-material allocation, Aryanization transfers, Gestapo surveillance of boardrooms. Business served the state's autarkic and military goals on pain of ruin.
Analytical use
The book anchors the Marxist position that fascism does not abolish capitalism but reorganizes it in crisis — merging monopoly capital with state coercion while destroying the workers' movement. It counters both the "socialism" in National Socialism's name and libertarian attempts to read the Nazi economy as socialist.
Franz Neumann's Behemoth (1942) complements it with the category of "totalitarian monopolism."