War-time Economy
- Created by: PhoebeM
- Created on: 06-02-20 11:15
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- War Economy
- Impossible arms targets
- H and the Nazis made military decisions on the basis that economic plans would work
- Nazis invaded the Soviet Union (1941) because Goering assured Hitler that the Luftwaffe could supply troops.
- Luftwaffer never exceeded 5,000 aircrafts
- Nazis invaded the Soviet Union (1941) because Goering assured Hitler that the Luftwaffe could supply troops.
- H and the Nazis made military decisions on the basis that economic plans would work
- Labour
- Labour shortages
- Workers on V2 rocket project died from lack of food, sanitation, shelter
- 8 million in slave labour
- Only 200,000 increased in Female Labour
- Partly because of Nazi Ideology
- Partly because tax benefits encouraged married women not to work
- Labour shortages
- Raw materials
- Relied om Romanian Oil imports - losing Battle of Stalingrad + oilfields so significant
- + Operation Tidal Wave (USA) airstrike
- Relied on Swedish imported iron and had not reached autarky.
- Relied om Romanian Oil imports - losing Battle of Stalingrad + oilfields so significant
- Speer and Total War
- Speer became head of Todt Organisation - began process of rationalisation
- Successes:
- Tank production increased by 25%
- total arm production increased by 59%
- ammunition production increased by 97%
- Successes:
- Goebbels's Total War speech - call for universal labour + closure of non-essential businesses
- Speer became head of Todt Organisation - began process of rationalisation
- Impossible arms targets
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