gustav stressemann: foreign minister of prewar germany, argued for closer alliance with US to at least get out of reparations untagang Hjalmar Schacht atlanticist approach french troops in Ruhr Brunner planks of Nazi party agenda for coming to power in 1932-ish: rearmament, cancellation of reparations, protection of agriculture, job creation was added for a brief while, but quickly cancelled and then used to hidectearmament, US opposed french/british rearmament since it hampered servicing war debts protectionist tariffs by US harmed dept repaymen foreign dept moratorium end of 1933, massive (partially hidden) rearmament program nazi night of the long knives: purge of the SA, serious economic truobles that it masked early '34: foreign currency crisis. Tariffs, cancelling gebt obligations, other countries used germany's foreign echange to service germany's debt. autarky, nazi crushing of labor union movement on 1934ish Kiel - city of uboat construbction Nazi nearly creation of aircraft industry, junkers "expropriation" IG Faben: synthetic oil, electric high-quality steel smelting sythetic fiber: rayon, synthetic staple foreign own companies 30ies german economy is lightly larger than British. Productivity 30% worsethan that of GB , inly half that of US mostly due to inefficient agriculture, small shops and service sector volkswagen project, radio army - vacation from productive activities at the expense of the state weapons - either downpayments of future acquisions or mass tax or mass consumption of spectacle/protection nazi ideology, primerely agrarian german agriculture: inefficient, a llot if small holdings unable to support family, agricultural reform never carried out, compared to france dense population on poor soil Richard Darre nazi agriculture minister lebenstraum: area up to urals is roughly equivalent to canada or australia 70% of goods in services purchased by the Reich in 1935 were done by wehrmacht 1936: course fore war. 4 year rearmament program 106 divisions 1 horse for 4 soldiers devalue currency vs. exchange control autarky program Fromm plan half the state budget for the 4-year plan went to synthetic fuel production synthetic rubber, syntgetic fiber reichwerker Hermann Goering takeover of Austria only added 7% of industrial capacity, but iron ore: Germany had acute shortage, that slowed rearmament in 1937, austrian iron ore previously supplied schechoslivakia and italy arianization of industry approx 1bn RM expropriated from jews: 5% of yearly state revenue in 1938/39 coal shortage due to rail car shortage in 1940 nazis took rail cars from occupied countries in 1940, but that sliwed production there. Including coal production. Continent-wide oil shortage. Milk was going stale in france, germany was thinking if de-motorization, Opel had to stop truck production due to the lack of fuel few aircraft were produced in france for the nazis: no energy and labor inefficiency soviets demanded machining tools as means if settlement for raw materials supplied. Goering oct 1940 stated that deliveries to SU have the same priorities as to wehrmacht general plan ost: 31 mil people removal of slav population of ukraine, buelirussia, poland; jews - eliminated nazi plan of mass starvation of western soviet urban population to create "surplus" of ukrainian grain to feed germany and its war effort another 30 mil fall 1944, 7+ mil, over 20% of total workforce in Germany was fireigners atlantic charter Aug 14, 1941 killing polish jews to save the grain harvest of fall 1942, possibly would have starved poles in the spring of 1943 Fritz Sauckel - responsible of ostarbeiter program Albert Speer armaments minister ME109G had enough straight line speed but not enough maneuverabikity to combat new mustangs and spitires HE111 - old bomber worked as night interseptor against unescorted RAF night bombers. ME2?? was too raw to go into muss production untested design failed tank production at peak no more than 7% german weapons & tank production peaked in last months of 1944, ammunition - september, aircraft - collapsed in august