The Protracted Conflict

IN the late 1930s a book was published with a title that became a popular slogan: You Can’t Do Business with Hitler! “You ought not do business with Hitler” would have expressed the author’s intent more accurately. His argument was moral, economic and strategic.

1. The Nazi regime is evil. By doing business with Nazi Germany we condone evil; we serve to make the regime seem legitimate to its subjects, to our own citizens and to world opinion. Doing business with a Nazi-ruled Germany thus strengthens Nazism.

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IN the late 1930s a book was published with a title that became a popular slogan: You Can’t Do Business with Hitler! “You ought not do business with Hitler” would have expressed the author’s intent more accurately. His argument was moral, economic and strategic.

1. The Nazi regime is evil. By doing business with Nazi Germany we condone evil; we serve to make the regime seem legitimate to its subjects, to our own citizens and to world opinion. Doing business with a Nazi-ruled Germany thus strengthens Nazism.