Business with Hitler?
August 23, 1941
BUSINESS WITH HITLER?
from The Post Standard, Syracuse N.Y.
Rep. Hamilton Fish, the tall, beetle-browed New York isolationist, suggests that a German victory would actually be a boon to business here. (U.S.)
It would increase the Nazi buying power in the United States, he was quoted as telling a meeting of Philadelphia America-Firsters the other night. On the other hand, a German defeat would mean more
competition in world markets with the products of our labor, and less buying power to purchase goods on the American Market.
Recommended as reading matter for Mr. Fish is Douglas Miller's new best-seller, "You Can't Do Business with Hitler," which starts serially in Sunday's Post-Standard.
Miller was this country's commercial attache at Berlin for 15 years, leaving Germany in 1939 after six years of first-hand dealing with the Nazi regime.
Consequently--even though his book is sure to provoke controversy, it cannot be dismissed as the work of a professional sensationalist.
The bugaboo of military invasion has stirred the imagination of many an American, but most people have failed to think thru the question of how an Axis victory over Great Britain would affect American living--even tho no Nazi Bombers ever flew over our shores.
Miller's articles translate Nazi trade domination as he see it in terms of the average business man, the average householder, the average citizen.
One may or may not agree with his conclusions, but, coming from such a source, they are of more than ordinary interest.
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Veronica Helen Hart is the author of the EPIC finalist, "Elena, the Girl with the Piano," (Double Edge Press) a story set in WWII. There are several more stories to come this week from the August, 1941 newspaper. The expressed thoughts and opinions about the impending war are fascinating when put in perspective.
BUSINESS WITH HITLER?
from The Post Standard, Syracuse N.Y.
Rep. Hamilton Fish, the tall, beetle-browed New York isolationist, suggests that a German victory would actually be a boon to business here. (U.S.)
It would increase the Nazi buying power in the United States, he was quoted as telling a meeting of Philadelphia America-Firsters the other night. On the other hand, a German defeat would mean more
competition in world markets with the products of our labor, and less buying power to purchase goods on the American Market.
Recommended as reading matter for Mr. Fish is Douglas Miller's new best-seller, "You Can't Do Business with Hitler," which starts serially in Sunday's Post-Standard.
Miller was this country's commercial attache at Berlin for 15 years, leaving Germany in 1939 after six years of first-hand dealing with the Nazi regime.
Consequently--even though his book is sure to provoke controversy, it cannot be dismissed as the work of a professional sensationalist.
The bugaboo of military invasion has stirred the imagination of many an American, but most people have failed to think thru the question of how an Axis victory over Great Britain would affect American living--even tho no Nazi Bombers ever flew over our shores.
Miller's articles translate Nazi trade domination as he see it in terms of the average business man, the average householder, the average citizen.
One may or may not agree with his conclusions, but, coming from such a source, they are of more than ordinary interest.
***
Veronica Helen Hart is the author of the EPIC finalist, "Elena, the Girl with the Piano," (Double Edge Press) a story set in WWII. There are several more stories to come this week from the August, 1941 newspaper. The expressed thoughts and opinions about the impending war are fascinating when put in perspective.
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