False dichotomy, German industrialists were not faced with a choice between Nazism and Communism. They could have supported Reichskanzler Generalleutenant Kurt von Schleicher, who was willing to put together a coalition of the non-Nazi right, the Catholic Zentrum, and the Social Democrats. The German Nazis' big business supporters saw an opportunity to create a reactionary dictatorship to crush not only German Communism, but also German Social Democracy, and pro-labor "Catholic action" based German Zentrum. The resulting Nazi dictatorship crushed the German trade unions, outlawing them on May 2, 1933, and awarded huge government contracts to Thyssen, Krupp, Bayer, and other large German privately owned corporations, allowing them to make superprofits. This profitable arrangement continued through World War II, when privately owned German corporations raked in super duper profits from using slave laborers from countries conquered by Germany. Doesn't even smell like socialism to me.