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‘The resumption and failure of efforts to socialize the German coal industry [in 1919] marked the end of any fundamental attempt to alter the distribution of economic power in Germany. […] It illustrated how social democrats became constrained by their own commitments to productivity and the general welfare—ultimately to the detriment of the "community". […]
‘Public control of Europe's key industry faltered in France and Germany because in a time of critical #fuel shortage big inductry made economical survival appear to ride upon its own independence.’
– Charles S. Maier in "Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany and Italy in the Decade After World War I", published in 1975, pp 194 & 195

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