Hitler was ‘an enemy of free-market economics’ and a ‘reluctant dirigiste.’ - Richard Overy

The outcome [of the Nazi economy] was a command economy, governed by military priorities, but run by a coalition of state officials, soldiers, party hacks and industrial technocrats.

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

Indeed, many businessmen seem on the evidence to have been wary of the closet anti-capitalism of the rank-and-file Nazis.