Heavy Industry and Union Labor in the Weimar Republic

effectively dispels some simplifying notions about the relationship of German business and the Nazi party. On one point, however, Mr. Hallgarten himself makes a statement which, I believe, should not go unchallenged. Having correctly explained that prior to 1929 the support which heavy industry gave to the Nazis was sporadic and on the whole not very important, Mr. Hallgarten maintains that in this period, especially "as soon as actual fighting [against the Communists] stopped" German heavy industry chose as an alternative "a policy of co-operation with the German trade unions"; a little later he speaks explicitly of the industrialists' "political collaboration with union labor." The record, however, contains no facts that could be properly described as such collaboration

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