The Gestapo can stóp this up to a point, Ifthe German gjtizen loses confidence in the currency, and if Open signs of inflation appear, then no regimentation can prevent panic. This is the Nazis' fear. They are in a dilemma, Either they must increase taxation, which is already oppressively high. Or they must conficate property all over the Reich. Or they must proceed to openly inflam tionary measures.
These alternatives are equally oblectionable and are politically dangerous. Confronted by them, the authorities will assuredly wriggle ingeniously, Their power to control the system is very great, and from 1933 onwards they have displayed great ingenuity in their handling of difficult financial positions. But each time one financial hurdle has been successfully overcome, the next is conespondingly more difficult.
To say that the German economic structure is on the verge of collapse would be premature. But the Nazis are assuredly facing the gravest difficulties, and whatever they do will open the door to further difficulties for the German financial structure and the Nazi regime,
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