Turner argues that the representatives of big business did not support Hitler financially on his rise to power because the fear of a Nazi socialist government. Business representatives used their money and political power to keep a government free of Marxism. They realized their businesses would not thrive when politics totally controlled the economy. Turner says that big business' role in politics where to preserve a nonsocialist government by forming nonsocialist parties, funding nationalist candidates, and by supporting the conservative wing of the Nazi party.

The German population was split in supporters of Nationalism and Socialism. Marxism and socialist government would eliminate competition between businesses and take profits out of the hands of business owners. Because of this, wealthy businessmen who entered politics would back a nationalist party. In an effort to increase the nationalist party's political power, several businessmen formed a single nonsocialist party known as "burgerliche...