As economics in National Socialist Germany the development of the German economy is described of the appointment Adolf Hitler as the realm chancellor 1933 up to the end of the Second World War.

Background

World economic crisis and the Weimar Republic

The contract of Versailles specified area separations, which worsened the possibilities of the self-supply within the narrowed borders with simultaneous population growth. The loss corresponded to 75 % of the German iron ore production, 26 % of the lead production and 7 % of the industrial enterprises. Further the agrarian surplus areas west Prussia and floats were missing. As long as the world trade was intact, the need at agrarian and production goods could be made up for by import. In October 1929 the breaking out world economic crisis drew a collapse of the international trade to credits beside the departure of foreign loans and -.

The imported goods sank faster than the exports and led so at short notice to a positive foreign trade balance, which contributed additionally to the deflation. But the entire volume of the world trade shrank strongly. Sinking Welthandelsvolumen and thus shrinking export caused a rise of unemployment. The Kaufkraftschwund resulting from it led a sinking domestic trade volume to a decrease of the home demand, led to more unemployment. This cycle was accelerated by the deflation, since it corresponded effectively to a real wages increase and created additional unemployed persons.

1929 tried the government under Franz of Papen to fight unemployment by careful national measures. The job creation was recompenced with the assignment of tax certificates, which equaled an indirect provision of work. But this stimulus for the economy was too weak, in order to achieve the desired effect. The 1932 following government Kurt of Schleicher hoped for a world-wide economic recovery, in view of whose already moderate national corrections would seize. For direct provision of work, the manipulation of the state as clients and customer, were thus estimated 500 million realm Marks. It is unclear, in what respect these means would have led medium-term to the goal. Unemployment reached 1932 also over six million announced unemployed person their high point.

Restaurant economics "„of the Reformer "“and the NSDAP

A broadly varied circle of acquaintances from economics, financing, science and press reacted to the negative effects of the world economic crisis with the development and conception of national concepts.

Those as Reformer designated personalities saw the adjusting thing failed here, liberals and only on supply and demand based concept of the world economy.

The demand for autarcy for the detachment of future crisis centres gained appreciably significance. However the framework of acting should be expanded over the existing borders of the realm. World-wide defined commercial blocks crystallized, whereby England and France with their colonies formed own blocks. For the concept "„of the Reformer "“a connection with the Baltic states, Austria, Eastern Europe and the Balkans offered itself. This area was called with different variations intermediate Europe. Within this area should agricultural products, raw materials and industrial goods be duty-free exchanged, production nationally be steered. Germany the supremacy should come. The world economy should be replaced by a region economy.

This current played the NSDAP, which could not exhibit powerful economical concepts before the world economic crisis, into the hands. The central conception of a habitat ideology Adolf Hitler could be fit in into the theory of the region economy. Autarcy became a key word for the economic authority of the NSDAP, which became with the realm tag elections in September 1930 a second-strongest party. The degradation of the economic situation in Germany accompanied directly with the ascent of the NSDAP.

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