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According to Bruce Pauley, Fascist governments exercised control over private property but did not nationalize it.

However, according to Patricia Knight, they did, with the Italian Fascist government coming to own the highest percentage of industries outside the Soviet Union.

The Nazis also nationalized some business.

In fact, the " Twenty-Five Point Programme " of the Nazi party, adopted in 1920, demanded " the nationalization of all businesses which have been formed into corporations.

" Other scholars noted that big business developed an increasingly close partnership with the Nazi and Fascist governments as it became increasingly organized.

Business leaders supported the government's political and military goals, and in exchange, the government pursued economic policies that maximized the profits of its business allies.

Nazi Germany transferred public ownership and public services into the private sector, while other Western capitalist countries strove for increased state ownership of industry.

While Fascism claimed that corporatism gave workers power alongside employer in workplaces in reality the concept of " Fuhrerprinzip " gave employers and State-appointed workplace managers absolute control over the workplace as dictated by the State-owned German Labor Front ; based on the Social Darwinist ideology that certain individuals are " gifted " and " born to rule ", employers thought to be part of that group.

In his book, Big Business in the Third Reich, Arthur Schweitzer notes that, " Monopolistic price fixing became the rule in most industries, and cartels were no longer confined to the heavy or large-scale industries.

[...] Cartels and quasi-cartels ( whether of big business or small ) set prices, engaged in limiting production, and agreed to divide markets and classify consumers in order to realize a monopoly profit.