Günter Reimann
Hans Steinicke, better known by his pen-name Günter Reimann, was a German-born economist and writer. He was noted as founder and editor of International Reports, a New York-based weekly publication he created in 1947 and sold to the London Financial Times in 1983, and author of The Vampire Economy: Doing Business under Fascism (1939) about what he described as the onerous business policy of the Nazi Party and its disastrous effects on the Nazi economy. Prior to World War II, Reimann was a member of the Communist Party of Germany and at the forefront of the underground resistance to Adolf Hitler within Nazi Germany.
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- 🏆 Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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"The existence of a state within the State—the Party and the bureaucracy—is a phenomenon of the post-War world."
"A foreign visitor to the Berlin Stock Exchange would easily be deceived. There are announcements of daily quotations and price changes as though a free Stock Exchanged still existed, but nowhere would…"
"The slightest formal mistake was punishable with tremendous penalties. A fine of millions of marks was imposed for a single bookkeeping error. Obviously, the examination of the books was simply a pret…"
"While State representatives are busily engaged in investigating and interfering, our agents and salesmen are handicapped, because they never know whether or not a sale at a higher price will mean denu…"
"The totalitarian State does not tolerate any ‘second government,’ any challenge to the power of the all-wise dictator. ‘Within the constitution of the Third Reich any position independent of the will …"
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