The Fascist Model of an Organized Trading System Challenges the Liberal Gold Standard

For German technocrats and businessmen, the Reich's mission was to guide Europe out of the slump of the 1930s and to demonstrate the superiority of the fascist model of an organized trading system over the failed and fragmented liberal gold standard. German economists had long seen the basic assumptions of free market economics as nothing more than an outmoded theoretical rationalization for English supremacy and suggested that fascist systems of controlled trade were more likely to produce prosperity across Europe.

--Mark Mazower, Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe (New York: Penguin Books, 2009), 121-122.