Soon after his accession to the Chancellery of the Weimar Republic January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler German economy will mutate into a war economy, focusing its priorities in the reset. To this end, lAllemagne had to import raw materials that could not be funded by foreign exchange obtained by exporting. Thus Hitler with dedicated service support Schacht he practiced a clever monetary dumping avoiding offending the interests of the United States. The author writes that he aptly sagissait dune continuation of research Streseman policy dalliance with the United States, to influence the French demands payment of war indemnities provided in the "Treaty of Versailles", it is considered a true " scrap of paper ". Inflationary pressures generated by the German economy overheating created great fear in Germany. Already, not only under Hitler, sexprimaient lobsession monetary stability combined with an aggressive export policy.
Autumn 1938, the Sudeten crisis which found the preparation for possible military the commitment of France and Great Britain as part of the involvement of their alliance with Czechoslovakia will generate a larger political fears and his dHitler Staff. Indeed on that date, Adam Tooze demonstrates that economic lAllemagne was in the inability to support an armed conflict. We know the rest, the Franco-British cowardice expressed in Munich. What the author tells us, this is to have great fear that this could have lost as quickly a war has given rise to a climax of violence against Jews. Kristallnacht of November 10, 1938 is directly related to the Sudeten crisis. Göring regret publicly that violence is expressed in the destruction of shops owned by Jews because the sum of special glass windows imported from Belgium, to be replaced, will cut the budget lAllemagne reset. Göring in his racial and economic logic would have preferred that 200 Jews were massacred rather than property destroyed (p.282).
In 1939, the reset initiated by France and lAngleterre threaten fragile efforts to that of Germany, which still retains outside the Navy, an advance. Therefore, in the projection of industrial production, the war could not be declared quen 1939. Also for these economic reasons, Hitler played a gamble in May 1940, focusing almost all of its best divisions, without having reserves, denveloppement maneuver the Franco-British military body prelude collapse of France. The analysis by economic data of war brings a cool lighting.
One of the myths (lies) that survive falls through Tooze. The Wehrmacht, the army of the German people, not the SS, designs, in the strategy of "Lebensraum" for the "people without space 'quest the German people, to assure him throughout the war adequate food and prevent embrittlement homefront known by hunger in 1917, to conquer Ukraine and daffamer in "terms of hunger" 30 million people. On June 23, 1942, two months before the harvest Backe, Minister of the Third Reich The power supply, analyzes the Polish rations are already too weak, no surplus can not be taken significantly to feed the German people. "The General Government account yet today 3.5 million Jews. Poland must be cleaned during the year. "Gauleiter and Franck will mission to make disappear very quickly 2 million Jews" useless "in the food chain. The dune economic equation commissioning such data is freezing. Göring declared on August 5, 1942 "() The Führer has repeatedly said, and I repeat after him: if someone is hungry, it will not be the Germans, but other peoples ()" -p.526
The looting of savings under German occupation was obvious. LAllemagne has looted the France of the equivalent current 77 billion euros between 1940 and 1944 which sajoutent 13 billion of euros for shopping lAllemagne made by French companies, paid by the Bank of France which emitted a claim on the bank debt of Germany which will of course never repaid. What author nindique not, this is that France knew always honor its commitments to the Germans in the aftermath of the 100 days of Napoleon I and the defeat of 1871 when the Germans especially with the unfortunate complicity of French pacifists whose Aristide Briand - have defaulted on payments that they had the French under the "Treaty of Versailles" to have ransacked during four years nearly a third of French territory that the French knew absolutely not get paid during their occupation of the Rhineland during eleven years (end of 1918 1930). It is necessary not to forget our history.
Other aspects of German economy operating outside leffroyable concentration camps which is now better known, mark the player. Thus the use of servile Doeuvre hand was erected in economic institution in Germany. More than 7 million of them died (p.506). At the end of the war, one in three of the industry darmement was a foreign slave.
Multiple new information cleared by the author, put in perspective with talent and meticulousness, make this book essential reading history and sheds new light on the history especially of the German nation.
