[The Nazis] handed out billions in price subsidies to farmers…. As early as December 1939, a high-ranking financial administrator complained that the privileging of farmers 'is in many case so grotesque that it can scarcely be kept secret from the rest of the populace, segments of which are being called on to make real sacrifices.'

p. 55 - Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State (2007)