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Show Nazis Fully Rule German Business Control' Is Total in Every Essential Respect. WASHINGTON. The Nazi government govern-ment has out-feudalized the Middle Ages in tying the German worker to his job, the business man to his desk and the landlord to his estate, according to a study made public by the Brookings institution. German industrialists, frequently portrayed as the powers behind the I Nazi rulers, have really been stripped of their independence and function primarily as agents of the state, the study reports. The study, published under the title, "How Nazi Germany Has Controlled Con-trolled Business," was conducted by L. Hamburger. It was made on the i basis of all source materials available avail-able to the Brookings institution during dur-ing the war. The author acknowledged acknowl-edged the assistance of the department depart-ment of state and the bureau of foreign for-eign and domestic commerce of the department of commerce. Nazi control of business within Germany is total in every essential respect, the study emphasized. This control extends from the largest farm to the smallest tenant, from the foremost industrial concern to the humblest cobbler. Contrary to Nazi boasts of efficiency efficien-cy in management, the study noted, decrees, rules and instructions "flow in an unending stream from the of- flees . of the Reich (and) often leave a business man in a quandary not merely as to what to do but as to where authority lies." As an instance of German red tape, it cited the construction of an industrial plant that required permission per-mission from 30 governmental agencies. |