THE VAMPIRE ECONOMY

Günter Reimann

THE VAMPIRE ECONOMY

DOING BUSINESS UNDER FASCISM

Mises Institute
Print on Demand
2007

ISBN: 9781610160384

WHAT A GERMAN AUTO MANUFACTURER HAS
TO DO TO GET 5,000 TIRES FOR HIS CARS

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

THIS book could never have been written without the help of numerous friends and acquaintances in Europe who gave generously of their knowledge and experience and helped me to clarify manifold new trends and phenomena. During my stay in Europe I met many people of all social classes who lived or traveled in fascist countries—bankers, industrialists, importers and exporters, fascist or Nazi journalists, and radical opponents of the totalitarian states. Many of these people frankly discussed all the questions I raised.

PREFACE

THIS book may be helpful as an answer to these burning questions: Why did Hitler start another war? How did it become possible that the “Fuehrer” could lead millions of intelligent and cultured people, who hate senseless slaughter, into a war which must have devastating effects upon Germany as well as upon the whole of mankind?

THE VAMPIRE ECONOMY

Chapter I

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BUSINESSMAN

“The role of the individual businessman has been completely altered in the totalitarian States, and his position cannot be judged by American standards.”

Chapter II

DESTRUCTION OF THE SANCTITY OF PRIVATE PROPERTY

“The government of a totalitarian State would not be ‘authoritarian’ if the courts still functioned independently.”

Chapter III

CORRUPTION: MONEY POWER AGAINST ABSOLUTE POWER

“Under such conditions, corruption is not merely a vice but an economic necessity.”