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114. Kravchenko, I Chose Freedom, p. 476; Thyssen, I Paid Hitler, pp. 47–9.

115. See for example J. Heyl ‘The Construction of the Westwall: an Example of National Socialist Policy-making’, Central European History, 14 (1981), pp. 71–4.

116. Kravchenko, I Chose Freedom, pp. 323–5.

117. Zumpe, Wirtschaft und Staat, pp. 341–2.

118. Kravchenko, I Chose Freedom, p. 328.

119. Tooze, Statistics and the German State, pp. 239–44, on problems of data collection; Harrison, Soviet Planning, pp. 26–7.

120. See for example Fitzpatrick, ‘Ordzhonikidze’s Takeover of Vesenkha’, pp. 158–67.

121. R. J. Overy Goering: the cIron Man’ (London, 1984), pp. 53–60, 62–8; on his special powers Reichsgesetzblatt, 1936, Part I, p. 887.

122. Munting, Economic Development, p. 105; Dunmore, Stalinist Command Economy, pp. 19–20; Temin, ‘Soviet and Nazi Planning’, p. 575; S. Fitzpatrick ‘Blat in Stalin’s Time’, in S. Lovell, A. Ledeneva and A. Rogachevskii (eds) Bribery and Blat in Russia: Negotiating Reciprocity from the Middle Ages to the 1990s (London, 2000), pp. 169–76.

123. D. R. Shearer Industry, State, and Society in Stalirfs Russia 1928–1934 (Ithaca, NY, 1996), pp. 235–6.

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126. Overy, War and Economy, pp. 14, 164–6.

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128. Khlevniuk, In Stalin’s Shadow, pp. 51–2.

129. S. N. Frokopovicz Russlands Volkswirtschaft unter den Sowjets (Zurich, 1944), p. 2–57.

130. E. Belova ‘Economic Crime and Punishment’, in Gregory (ed.), Behind the Facade, pp. 145–52.

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132. Filtzer, ‘Standard of Living’, p. 1027.

133. Gorlizki, ‘Rules, Incentives and Campaign Justice’, p. 1253.

134. Reichsgesetzblatt, 1936 Part I, p. 1015, ‘Gesetz gegen Wirtschaftssabotage’.

135. BA-B R26/II Anh./i H. Dichgans ‘Zur Geschichte des Reichskommissars für die Preisbildung’, pp. 4–6.

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