But what possible alternative could there be to an internationally orientated economic policy? With this in mind, big business had little good to expect from the government appointed by President Hindenburg on 30 January 1933. Hitler, Schacht and Hugenberg were all notorious enemies of economic liberalism. And despite the common ground of opposition to the Weimar constitution and hostility towards the parties of the left, this is the essential backdrop against which we must interpret the meeting on
