German Economy in WW2
Mind map examining the economy of Germany in WW2
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- Created on: 31-05-13 10:21
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- German War Economy
- Chaotic Beginnings
- At the start of the war conflict between Economics Ministry and Office for 4 Year Plan
- Unified with creation of office for Munitions under Todt (Later Speer)
- War economy was not fully mobilised until 1942 - Consumer Goods increased 16% in early years
- Operation Barbarossa was a turning point - Military expenditure increased 3 fold in 1942 to 56 billion marks
- At the start of the war conflict between Economics Ministry and Office for 4 Year Plan
- Speer & Total War
- Hitler wanted simplification of the economy
- Goebbels made the Total War speech - calling for universal labour and closure of non-essential businesses
- Speer took over running of the Munitions Ministry - began a process of Rationalisation
- Better use of floor space and less tank & Vehicle models meant productivity increased 32% 1939-43
- BMW engines increased 200% with an only 12% increase of labour and an Allied bombing campaign
- War effort was not coherently organised - Eichmann had control over railways for the Final solution
- Labour
- 3.5 million less workers in market by 1940 and a further 3 million less by 1942
- Labour shortages plugged by POWs and foreigners
- But non-German productivity was only 60-80% of German productivity
- Thousands of workers on the V2 project died wanting shelter, food and simple sanitation
- 8 million slave labourers
- Only a 200,000 increase in Female Labour and no Female consription
- Partly because of Nazi ideology
- Partly because tax benfits encouraged married women not to work - Single women employment at 97%
- Large numbers of women were employed in the rearmament scheme 1936-39
- Raw materials
- Relied on Swedish imported iron and had not reached Autarky
- Invasions were partly to increase self-sufficiency - 50% increase of iron production to 20 million tonnes
- Relied on Romanian Oil imports - why loosing Battle of Stalingrad and oilfields of Caucus so significant
- Steel demand outstripped supply by 30%
- Coal production stagnated at an increase of 1% - Mainly because Russian Coalfields were destroyed o operated at 1/20th of the pre-war level
- Chaotic Beginnings
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