 are now at war. There are about two alternatives. Total victory or total defeat. There can be no such thing as a military stalemate that would result in the survival of Hitlerism. That is the opinion of a man who knows. Douglas Miller, for 15 years commercial attaché to the American Embassy in Berlin, planting a radio series adapted from Mr. Miller's book You can't do business with Hitler in episode three. No American goods want it. This is Douglas Miller speaking. December 9, 1941 will go down in history as a date on which Adolf Hitler declared war on the United States. History in one sense will be wrong. Actually, Adolf Hitler launched an undeclared war against us as early as 1934. Yes, I said 1934, seven years ago. This was not a shooting war, but the Nazis used every weapon at the command except shooting to destroy our government, divide our people, steal our military secrets, and cripple our standard of living. These weapons were sabotage, propaganda, the fifth column, espionage, and last, but not least, the weapon of international trade. Not the officials in Berlin were busy scheming to destroy America's prosperity. Now let's get down to the cases. The case of James Tennyson, typical of thousands of others. Tennyson was an American businessman who in 1937 was trying to sell the products of American labor to Germany and the rest of the world. One day he came to see me at my office in Berlin. Said, I'm in the terrible jam and you have to help me. Well, what's wrong? Well, I've been shipping tello from New York and selling it to the Germans. I have a whole shipload of tello at Hamburg and the German authorities won't permit me to unload it. What? Not for heaven's sake. Well, let me explain. You see, this is beef tello. The Germans use beef tello to make soap, but it's good to use to make all your margarine. Oh, I see. You've run into the Nazi regulation that prohibits Germans to eat food grown in America, hasn't it? And even though my tello is used to soap, the Nazis insist that since it's remotely possible that someone might use it to make only a margarine, it must be called food. I tell you, Doug, this whole mess is driving me crazy. Haven't you a contract with the Nazi? No, I haven't. You know what they think of a contract. Yes, the proverbial strap of paper. Well, all I can do, Jim, is to get in touch with the Nazi party big britches and try to talk them into giving you a break. In the meantime, you can just sit tight. Oh, hallelujah, Herr Rupanda. Hi, Hitler. Won't you be sitting? No, no, I prefer to stand. Oh, well, now you're familiar with the case that is Mr. Denison, Herr Rupanda? Right, familiar. Good. Now, Mr. Denison wishes to appeal a ruling that prohibits him to unload his car. Impossible. That Denison's behavior has been necessary for the criminal. Oh, come, come, come now, Herr Rupanda. How is it you suddenly label criminal something you've approved of for some time? Furthermore, Denison has a contract. A contract violates national socialistic principles. And any such contract is invalid. Oh, really? Well, why then did you knock the officials of the Ministry of Economic Finance? Because, Herr Denison, because Herr Denison deliberately deceived them. Oh, now that's sheer nonsense. Will you please explain precisely what national socialistic principle Mr. Denison has violated? The eternally sacred principle that German blood be completely and forever leased with holy German soil. Is this something unholy, then, about Denison's beat power? Yes. It is edible. It comes from America. No true Aryan German can eat food grown anywhere but in Germany. All right, all right, I won't argue that point. But the power was to be made in the soul. Defining it as food seems to me the thinnest kind of technicality, and one with no other purpose than to evade your contract obligation. That remark is incursing heavily. But Mr. Denison can't understand why. He expects him to understand this mercenary and grasping and intent solely upon making money. How can he understand ideals or essence or sacred principles or what is most holy to the German people? Our effort is ignorant, he's seen much here. The fellow will not be permitted in Germany. And that is final. I leave that. Herr rebonder, wait. Herr rebonder! Oh, the bomb. Young actually believes all that lot. The case of James Denison is only one of hundreds of similar cases. Germany was out to dominate the trade markets of the world, all of its satellite neighbors, and their military victims were to cooperate with the Nazis in not only refusing American goods, but also in driving America out of the other trade markets of the world. The Nazis preferred to see Germans do without rather than purchase our manufactured goods. This harsh regulation was very hard on many Germans. I recall one very prophetic example. A German friend of mine, a kindly, gentle old doctor, who had bought an American male automobile before Hitler came to power and consequently before the restrictions were enforced. I called on my friend one day and just felt as if he was in the car. Oh, Herr Miele, I'm so glad you've come to see us. You are just the one to help us. Father, now you have nothing to worry about. Herr Miele is an American, and all Americans are experts with problems with mechanics. Herr Miele, you flatter me, Colin. I think the trouble is missed within a distinct year here, Miele. Oh, the cooperative. Yes, the cooperative. Well, I don't think it's beyond repair, Doctor. You see, there's crack right across the face here. What, there must be some way to fix it? No, I'm sorry. The only thing you can do is to find a one. By a movement. Look, that is impossible. Oh, Father, does that mean we have to... Your current, our automobile is useless to us now. Doctor, do you mean you must junk a thousand dollar car for lack of a ten dollar part? Yeah, American parts cannot be bought anywhere in Germany. The government forbids importing American parts. And nowhere else can I get the right kind of... What do you call it, the cooperative? If you know how we saved our money to buy an automobile in 10 minutes, that would be how Doctor could be able to call an occupation. And I've had it for nearly a year. Father, what if you brought to the party leader? I already know, but he would say that I am unpatriotic. Then, because I can't use the automobile, he would take it from me for scrap hair miller. A magic scrap yard to make bombs and cannons. But Father, how would you be able to call now an occupation? You have some money. Well, it don't know. Since Hitler, everything is in goosebump. Father, be careful. Take the automobile, hair miller. But they find useful things you Americans have made. Useful to a doctor and useful to the patient who waits for the doctor. When the layman is suffering and haste means feeling. Father, scrap. To make something like this now into things to steal is... Oh, live too long, hair miller. Things like these are not for me. As the opera's editor of the Ministry of Economics, I must tell you that you have been disinforced. Our regulations do not prohibit Americans from setting automobile parks in Germany. But none have been sold since Hitler came to power. Yeah, that's true. And Germans owning American-made cars now find it impossible to import. Both are predictable. Why then don't the American manufacturers take advantage of their opportunity to sell parts here? Well, because they refuse to agree to the terms we offer. That's why I help it up. May I ask what the terms are? They'll be carved off our cash, of course. I'm sure our manufacturers would accept a reasonable barter deal. On the contrary, we offer them barter, very few. We will buy $100,000 worth of automobile parts for $100,000 worth of German goods. In addition, they will buy an extra $1 million worth of goods and pay for them in cash. Do you call that reasonable? Asking them to invest $1 million cash merely to sell $100,000 worth of goods? Tell me that. We feel it is a privilege for foreigners to present here. No matter what the terms are. What these terms are? They'll be postures here, co-drivers. I may say so. They seem to me as merely one way of saying that you won't take our manufactured goods and really circumvent it. You may interpret the terms any way you like, Herr Mitter. But since you refuse our terms, I feel terribly sorry for the poor Germans who will now be unable to obtain parts for their American automobiles. After the future, the fools will know enough to buy German products. I hit them. American businessmen learn that except for certain war materials neither the Nazis nor the helpless victims of the new order would buy products made in the United States. Now, I've been trying to show to what lengths the Nazis carried their trade war against America to show they would never buy our surplus food nor our surplus manufactured goods. Nazi propaganda has proven its very same point. Not by intent, but because of a blunder. On a certain day in March, 1941, in the New York offices of the German-American commerce bulletin located at number 10 East 40th Street, one of the editors was glancing over the most recently published copy of the magazine when... Wait! I'm coming. I'm coming. What is the matter? It's not as though I thought you could cut out that article on Facebook. Cut it out? Oh, no. I did not understand. You did not understand. You did not understand. You did not understand anything. We are ruined. Completely ruined. Good boy. I have done nothing. Nothing? This fine-footed contradiction in the magazine and his face he has done nothing. Wait. Will you please turn the magazine to Facebook? I have to do something myself. I know. I know. I'm a fool. It is my own act to not make free that I was. All right. All right. I am finding it. Ah, here it is. Good. Now, read what I have written. Yes. There were many with more than 100 million people who could easily buy from the United States each year three to four billion bills of cotton and a great variety of finished products. Go on. Go on. The reasonable and normal trade relations would once more be established between both countries. Now, read your act. Go on. Take 12 years. But it is not my act to do it with Eric Nerman. I know. But it is the one I told you not to think about it. Three years. Eric Nerman writes, All the government is to the rules to make ourselves independent of the outside world in the domains of foodstuffs and industrial materials. Or other products. I can't. Now, do you see what you have done? On page three, we tell the Americans, Germany wants their properties and needs and large and neat and old and finished products. And on page 12, we tell them just the opposite. That we both want their foodstuffs and manufacturing. Are you fool? Oh, but that's the truth by Eric Nerman. That's what they say to the German Ministry of Economics. He tells how he plans to take the American state market away from them. Is it true? It's true. Why? We are not supposed to tell the truth. Well, Eric Nerman is a high official. But he wrote that article for Germans to read not for American. I don't do that to French. But I don't. You are. You are. Certainly to obey. You can't do business with Hitler. You have been listening to episode three in a radio series entitled, You Can't Do Business with Hitler. This series is based upon the actual experiences of Douglas Miller, who was for 15 years commercial attaché to the American Embassy in Berlin. Listen to the next episode in this series, which is entitled, Two for Me and One for You, and gives you the real inside story on a much-discussed subject, not safe bottom evidence. This program was prepared and directed by Frank Shelford and brought to you by the Office for Emergency Management in Washington.