An economic history of Nazi Germany whose findings are somewhat unexpected. The author shows that, far from being a success as is sometimes thought, the Nazi economic policy has brought Germany to the brink of bankruptcy in 1939 due to the redirection of all economic resources to the single the arms industry, and the plunder of conquered countries was the only solution for the German population does not die of hunger. For this reason also, it was impossible to let the Jews with their assets because the impact on German finances would have been unbearable. It also says that the German generals had planned implicitly, if not explicitly, to starve the Russian population of the occupied territories because there was no way to feed them - and that the use of a hand of aeuvre enslaved (prisoners of war or political) was indispensable to the Nazi war effort.
