Nazi political hegemony in the end prevented German capitalists from acting as capitalists. - Richard Overy

During the years that followed, Hitler and the Nazi movement were anything but the tools of German big business.

In the long run the [Nazi] movement was moving to a position in which the economic New Order would be controlled by the Party through a bureaucratic apparatus staffed by technical experts and dominated by political interests, not unlike the system that had already been built up in the Soviet Union.

Historians now debate whether Britain had a ‘managed economy’ by 1939, the very term—die gelenkte wirtschaft—adopted by German economists in the 1930s to describe the Nazi economy.