All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

by Rebecca Donner

The middle class, the working class, and wealthy, property-owning aristocrats all experienced devastation; no one was exempt. Or nearly no one. The great German industrialists not only survived hyperinflation, they profited from it. During the 1920s, the tycoons at the helms of the massive chemical conglomerate I. G. Farben and the weapons manufacturer Friedrich Krupp knew hyperinflation made manufacturing German goods cheap and easy to export to other countries. While most of the population in Germany suffered grievously, these tycoons amassed even larger fortunes. They were also among the industrialists who wrote big checks to support the Nazi Party immediately after Hitler took power in 1933—and who stand to profit handsomely from rearmament now.

Unspeakable evil