# Quote — Richard Overy, The Dictators

> In a remark made in 1932 to Otto Wagener, one of the party’s economic experts, Hitler observed that the business bourgeoisie “know nothing except their profit. ‘Fatherland’ is only a word for them.”

- Author: [Richard Overy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-overy.md)
- Book: [The Dictators](https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-overy/the-dictators.md)
- Page: 230
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Overy#The_Dictators:_Hitler's_Germany_and_Stalin's_Russia,_(2004)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/richard-overy/the-dictators/in-a-remark