All of these industrial investments in various ways profited from Hitler’s economic recovery. The more they detached themselves from their foreign parents and the more closely they collaborated with the regime, the better they did. The regime for its part, particularly in its early years, went out of its way to reassure representatives from Ford, GM and ITT of their position in Germany. Wilhelm Keppler advised ITT to appoint the banker Baron von Schroeder, one of the men who had brokered Hitler’s appointment to power in January 1933, to its board.105 Ford had extremely pro-Nazi management at
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