Schacht’s officials justified the need for centralized control of new investment in electricity generation unabashedly in terms of the ‘overarching interest of the German energy business’ (‘uebergeordenetes Interesse der deutschen Energiewirt-schaft’ ).51 This was too much for the National Socialists, such as Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, who was so dissatisfied that he had the bill withdrawn and redrafted so that state intervention was now justified in terms of the need to secure ‘unified leadership’ (‘einheitliche Fuehrung’) in the ‘interest of the common good’ (‘interesse des
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