Günter Reimann was an expert on finance and currencies as founder & editor of International Reports, a New York based weekly publication he sold to the London Financial Times

Financial Times

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 in 1983. Prior to World War II, he was a member of the Communist Party of Germany

Communist Party of Germany

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 and at the forefront of the underground resistance

German Resistance

The German resistance was the opposition by individuals and groups in Germany to Adolf Hitler or the National Socialist regime between 1933 and 1945. Some of these engaged in active plans to remove Adolf Hitler from power and overthrow his regime...

 to Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

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 within Nazi Germany

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.

Reimann was born Hans Steinicke in Angermünde

Angermünde

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, German Empire

German Empire

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. After fleeing Germany for London

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, he wrote The Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism, published in 1939. In that treatise, Reimann documented how the oppressive rule of the Nazis

Nazism

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 crushed the autonomy of the private sector through severe regulations and the threat of confiscatory fines for petty offences. As an economist

Economist

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, he later founded the "International Reports on Finance and Currencies" financial newsletter in 1947. He also authored Patents for Hitler in 1942.

After his migration to the United States

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, he lived in New York City

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, where he met Miriam Weber, a socialist activist, with whom who he later married and fathered two children, before the two divorced. Thereafter, he married Jutta Ruesch, a German citizen, and they subsequently had two children.

Reimann later moved to Manhasset

Manhasset, New York

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, Long Island, New York. In 2004, Reimann was awarded Germany's Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit

Bundesverdienstkreuz

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, the nation's highest civilian award.

Reimann is survived by his wife Jutta, his four children, grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Writings

• The Vampire Economy: Doing Business Under Fascism, Vanguard Press
  Vanguard Press
  The Vanguard Press was a United States publishing house established with a $100,000 grant from the left wing American Fund for Public Service, better known as the Garland Fund. Throughout the 1920s, Vanguard Press issued an array of books on radical topics, including studies of the Soviet Union,...
  
  , New York City, 1939
• Patents for Hitler, 1942