Word: rathenau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the World War Walther Rathenau, industrialist and economist, had taken hold of the German economic machine and coordinated it after the fashion of Bernard M. Baruch's later U. S. War Industries Board. A Jew, Rathenau was assassinated after the War by antiSemitic, anti-liberal nationalists. But Rathenau's secret dream of a completely rationalized and goosestep-clicking German industry was remembered by some of his young disciples who became Nazis. Hitler's first and second Four-year plans for making Germany self-sufficient owe more to Rathenau's social thinking than any Nazi would...
...went, calling out the names of practically every modern German author with whom the outside world is familiar: Karl Marx, Jakob Wassermann, Albert Einstein, Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger. Arnold and Stefan Zweig, Walther Rathenau...
...became general director, then Minister of Munitions. Thereafter, until his death, he held 14 ministries in various cabinets. Often called "the Stinnes of France," M. Loucheur helped draft the economic sections of the Treaty of Versailles, negotiated Reparations payments-in-kind at Wiesbaden with the late Walther Rathenau, German Minister of Reconstruction...