US New Deal planners consciously borrowed state-intervention lessons from Weimar Germany’s agricultural crisis.

Evidence

For more than eight years, the government of this country has attempted to overcome the difficulties of the prevailing economy by incorporating into it the elements of planning, in the industrial as well as the agricultural sector. The alarming predicament of agriculture in Germany under the Weimar Republic was an important factor in the rise of fascism. In this the government of the United States has recognized the danger and has attempted to bring agriculture under its control. The same holds true for other sectors of economic life. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 527

Categorization

• QUESTION: To what degree is this Pollock’s own claim versus an actual stated rationale of New Deal policymakers? Worth verifying.