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* [[All There in the Manual]]: Both ''[[Mein Kampf]]'' and the "Second Book" (the follow-up to Mein Kampf) are extensively referenced for Hitler's specific economics related statements.
* [[Bad Boss]]: '''Hitler'''. He was prone to making demands on industry for quotas that at times [[Holy Shit Quotient|''exceeded the global capacity of the entire world'']] and would not take no for an answer. Those who insisted on saying no risked everything from their careers to their personal safety, especially in the latter years of the Nazi regime.
* [[Bait and Switch]]: As Tooze explains, a common myth was the Nazis wanting to sponsor job creation programs for workers. The reality was that such had been considered and discredited under the Weimar regime as well as the Nazis, and when they finally were enacted, their true purpose was to jump start industry of military value, though sold to outside observers as an attempt to employ more labor that was unemployed.
* [[Brutal Honesty]]: William Darre, as early as 1936, had this to say about how Germany (in his role as the German agricultural ministry leader) could solve it's agrarian issues, which was a pretty clear statement of intent prior to 1939:
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