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²⁴ On 14 Oct. 1930, the Nazi party in the Reichstag introduced a measure designed to limit interest rates to 4 per cent, to nationalize the big banks, and to expropriate the entire property of the ‘bank and stock-exchange magnates’ without compensation. For reasons of political strategy, rather than economic conviction, Hitler demanded the measure's instant withdrawal.

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³⁰ The occasion for this protest by the landed interests was due, according to Wheeler-Bennett, to the political ineptitude of Schleicher, who had sought to purchase the support of the socialists and trade unions by promising them to reactivate Briining's scheme to resettle landless labourers on the bankrupt estates of the Junkers. The only result was, however, to increase the antagonism of the landlords, and to lose another possible basis of political support. Although, as Bracher points out, no direct connexion can be proved, it is presumed by Eyck, Bullock and others that the landed interests used their well-established connexions with Hindenburg to persuade him to oppose and if necessary to dismiss Schleicher. Wheeler-Bennett maintains that Schleicher sought to compel the Junker interest to withdraw their opposition and to join their military friends in support of his government, by threatening t o allow a Reichstag investigation to proceed into the allegations of corruption in the disposition of the Osthilfe loans of 1927-28, the purchase of Hindenburg's own estate in East Prussia, and even the sources of the money used to ensure Hindenburg's own re-election. Bullock says the same weapon was used, only this time successfully, by Hitler in a private interview he had with Hindenburg's son on 22 Jan. Oskar von Hindenburg, says Wheeler-Bennett, was the ' weakest link' and the choice was a sign of the ' uncanny psychological insight which Hitler so frequently displayed in personal relations'. Since the accounts differ widely, it is not now possible to determine how far the elder Hindenburg was affected by Hitler's threats or how far the younger Hindenburg was influential in drawing the support of the Junker interest over to the Nazi side. The significant fact is that these interests were no longer willing to accept a government headed by Schleicher.

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