On the German side, there was bewilderment as well, but principally amongst men who now counted themselves as enemies of the regime. The fascist industrialist Fritz Thyssen was so appalled that he went into exile in Switzerland, allowing Goering to confiscate his large stake in the Vereinigte Stahlwerke.121 Amongst the ideological followers of Nazism, however, the deal never seems to have been regarded as anything more than a convenient ceasefire.
