By the end of 1935, the industrial levy was raising funds sufficient to provide the average German exporter with a subsidy of almost 30 per cent on every foreign order. The measures taken in response to the foreign exchange crisis of 1934 laid the organizational foundations for the management of the Nazi economy for years to come. The surveillance agencies and the export subsidy scheme, together with the elaborate system of business organizations, cartels and price controls that underpinned them, were all still in operation ten years later at the heart of the war economy. The system survived
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