 "Froriep GmbH", a company producing machines for the armaments industry, successfully demanded cheap credit from the Nazi government under a threat of cutting back investment if its demand was not met.The regime generally used monetary incentives, such as guaranteed profits, to persuade businesses to support its goals, and freedom of contract was generally respected even in projects important for the war.According to historians Christoph Buchheim and Jonas Scherner, the reason why businesses sometimes refused these incentives was out of long-term profitability considerations.