Wilhelm Keppler, Hitler’s personal economic adviser, conspired with Heinrich Himmler to bring about a more ideological turn in economic policy.11 The shopfloor radicals of the NSBO and Robert Ley’s German Labour Front demanded a new deal for German labour. Schacht at the Reichsbank sided with Goering and the army in arguing for ever greater rearmament and made himself into the chief public spokesman for an aggressive programme of unilateral debt default.
