A poster depicting Hitler as the puppet of big business (Doesn't look like there is a date anywhere on the image). 
Found this in a book I was looking at by Henry Ashby Turner entitled "German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler". I was thinking about starting it soon. Of course, Hitler as a "tool of domestic German capital and heavy industry" is an argument that is not taken super seriously,
even among actual left and Marxist historians in the last 30 years or so. There was one specific German industrialist (whose name escapes me) that was a generous donor to Hitler and there were other wealthy individual patrons that greased his palms (most of NSDAP finances came
from small donors, Hitler was more of a Bernie Sanders than a Jeb Bush). Nonetheless, German capital (even more producerist parts of economy) were not over the moon about any party that had "socialist" in their name. After he came to power, Hitler was fairly accommodating to them
and even before they came to power, he was far to the right of the actual socialists/syndicalists in his own party on these issues. Nonetheless, I would be curious to see how Turner frames NS and Hitler's relationship with German business community before their ascension to power
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