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I can’t find anything from a Google search that indicates Hitler’s market manipulation is a direct cause of Saturday closure. The most frequently cited reason is to give time to catch up on paperwork. Though that explanation does seem to be in tension with this post on Stack Exchange^[Stack Exchange] which also says that the market closed because trading was light during the Depression (so, which is it, there is too much work or too little?).
If this is supposed to be common knowledge, it’s hard to find details on it.
I found this paper on the German defaults of the 1930s that analyzes European economies between 1930 and 1939, and it notes that European stock exchanges were regularly opened on Satudays during that time, with the exception of the LSE (which had already stopped opening on Saturdays some time around 1917, started opening on Saturdays in 1931 as a trial and then reverted to the 5 day week in 1934):
There is also evidence of European stock exchanges being opened on Saturdays after the end of WW2