The reformed Reichsbank, the Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Reich Labour Ministry and the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture were all products of World War I and its aftermath. 53 Many of the regulatory systems introduced after 1933 had been under discussion since the 1920s, including the electricity law and the new corporation law passed in 1937. However, the situation after 1933 was different, at least in the sense that the state acted with a far greater degree of authority and independence than ever before. For this purpose, the rhetoric of Hitler’s National Revolution was a
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