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161its anti-Jewish program. Gottfried Feder‟s great discovery,which made a profound impression on Hitler when he joinedthe German Labour Party, was the distinction between the“schaffendes” and “raffendes” capital. The “schaffendes,”creative, capital is employed in constructive industrial work,while the “raffendes,” grasping, capital is amassed in banks.The former is the Aryan capital and it smells sweetly in thenostrils, while the latter is Semitic capital, and it is repellent.“The struggle against international finance, and loancapital,” Hitler said, “has become the most important incidentof Germany‟s war for freedom and independence.”Commenting on this statement, Gottfried Feder remarked:“All true Nationalists share this conviction. The solutionof the problem entails an answer to the Jewish questionin the field of intellect.” This is Feder‟s way of saying thatthe economic program of the National Socialist Party is dictatedby racial considerations.Money, the orthodox National Socialist holds, is taintedwith Judaism. So are the banks and financial institutions, –the fortresses of robber barons. The cancer has penetratedso deep that, in Feder‟s view, there would be enough “mixedGermans” in the Reich even after the expulsion of the Jews –a thoroughbred German would be incapable of such appallingdeeds – to take over the banks vacated by the Jews and toravage the population in the way of their predecessors. AdolfHitler would not be surprised to see even so-called anti-Semites in the places of the Jewish “robber barons.”Hitler and most of his lieutenants are Socialists only so