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...from the nearest railway station perches Tiefenbrunn, the estate of cleft-nosed Dr. Kurt Schmitt. The view from his bedroom window is scarcely rivaled in all Bavaria. In bed last week with a telephone at his elbow the German Economics Minister was struggling with a strangling crisis in the Fatherland's economic life...
...Export Fatigue." Energetic Dr. Schmitt, a keen sportsman and a Mounted Group Leader of Equestrian S. S. Troops, was brought to bed by nervous exhaustion. He had worn himself out on a whirlwind tour of the Fatherland to drive home the slogan: "Stimulate Exports as a National Duty...
...markets where depreciated currencies have made ruling prices low in terms of gold or of the German mark. Cried Dr. Schmitt: "The error of concentrating on the home market in times like these must be uprooted! Exports must be forced by every means so as to secure for the Fatherland adequate foreign exchange...
...swing around Germany the dynamic Minister of Economics grew more and more high strung. Certain of his speeches amounted to exhorting German manufacturers to dump their goods abroad at less than cost, at any price they could get for the good of the Fatherland. Manufacturers too infected with "export fatigue" to obey were threatened with Government reprisals. Then Dr. Schmitt cracked under the strain and four Berlin doctors rushed...
When Adolf Hitler seized power Germany's trade balance had been favorable for three years and thus her vital imports were more than paid for by the proceeds of her exports. While this lasted the Fatherland could be considered economically afloat, no matter how deeply Germany might mire herself in the morass of moratoriums declared by blunt, bluff Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank...