Papen though he approved quotas in principle, did so only within the limits ‘permissible according to current trade treaties’ and when Papen fell, there was no decisive action by Schleicher.108 This, however, drove the farm lobby into outright opposition to the Republic. 109 In early 1933 key leaders of the agrarian lobby intervened decisively with President Paul von Hindenburg, himself the owner of a large estate, to push him towards accepting a coalition between Hugenberg’s DNVP and Hitler’s Nazi party.
Greed helped Hitler surprise surprise
