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he supported Schacht in insisting on the need to promote exports and secure Germany’s financial stability. That these priorities–armaments on the one hand, conventional economic stability on the other–were in fact contradictory was abundantly apparent by 1937 at the latest. To provide at least a partial reconciliation between them, Thomas made himself into the principal advocate of a draconian system of economic organization, through which the interests of every other aspect of the civilian economy would be systematically subordinated to the double priority of arms and exports. It was
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