ABSTRACT
Today, we no longer need refute the opinion that National Socialism signifies a revolution. This movement, we now see, has not changed the basic relationships of the productive process that is still administered by special social groups which control the instruments of labor regardless of the needs and interest of society as a whole.1 The economic organization of the Third Reich is built around the great industrial combines which, to a large extent with governmental help, had steadily increased their hold before Hitler’s ascent to power. They maintained their key position in the production for war and expansion. Since 1933, they have been amalgamated with a new “elite”, recruited from the top ranks of the National Socialist party, but they have not lost their decisive social and economic functions.2
