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What does it mean?
Schacht provided respectability and financial wizardry to help Hitler rearm secretly.
In plain terms
He gave Hitler financial power and respectability for rearmament.
What can you take from it?
Technical skills can enable harmful political goals.

Where it applies

  • financial policy
  • historical analysis
  • government funding

Putting it to work

  • audit financial flows
  • assess enabler roles

Questions to consider

  • Who enables power?
  • Is technical work neutral?

Another view

The facade of respectability might have been more complex.

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