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Just as the Nazi’s are waging war on the world, they are waging war on the free enterprise system. Americans want to make sales, but Germans don’t want to pay cash for the goods. Even when a deal can be arranged, the risks are weighted to benefit the German government, and give Americans the short end of the stick. These business practices are said to date back as far as 1934. When trades are arranged, American businesses had to put up their goods first, then receive far lesser value goods in exchange. The penalty for not accepting the deal is to have their goods confiscated.
