YCDBWH ep04 Two for Me One for You

You can't do business with Hitler. We are now at war. There are but two alternatives.

Total victory or total deceit. There can be no such thing as a military stalemate that would result in the survival of Hitlerism. That is the opinion of a man who knows. Douglas Miller. For 15 years, commercial attaché to the American Embassy in Berlin, and Berlin, presenting a radio series based on Mr. Miller's book. You can't do business

with Hitler. Episode 4. Two for Lee. One for you. This is Douglas Miller speaking. I want to talk to you about Nazi bottom method. You know what barter he is. You give me your goods and I give something just as valuable an exchange, a $50 radio for a $50 vacuum cleaner. Fair enough, an even exchange is

no robbery. One for you and one for me. But Nazi bar is something different. Two for the Nazis and one for their customers. Or perhaps three for the Nazis and nothing for the customers. In other words, the Nazi used bar as a weapon of world concrete, attacking the trade markets of the world with its unscrupulous weapons. Just as they attacked their neighbors with

I've been fifty-seven times. So let's get back to the beginning. When Hitler came to power, he announced Germany would trade with the world on a bottom basis. That sounded all right. And American businessmen wanted to give it a try.

In 1934, the American Chamber of Commerce invited me to a meeting in Berlin. The meeting was called for the purpose of appointing a committee of American businessmen to negotiate border deals with the Nazi military of economics.