Nazi Germany

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According to reppingfor20

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"Monopolistic price fixing became the rule in most industries, and cartels were no longer confined to the heavy or large-scale industries. [...] Cartels and quasi-cartels (whether of big business or small) set prices, engaged in limiting production, and agreed to divide markets and classify consumers in order to realize a monopoly profit." - Arthur Schweitzer, "Big Business in the Third Reich", Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1964, p. 269

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According to Mason, by 1939, the “overheating” of the German economy caused by rearmament, the failure of various rearmament plans produced by the shortages of skilled workers, industrial unrest caused by the breakdown of German social policies, and the sharp drop in living standards for the German working class forced Hitler into going to war at a time and place not of his choosing. - Kaillis, Aristotle Fascist Ideology, London: Routledge, 2000 pages 165-166

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By 1944, slave labour made up one quarter of Germany's entire work force, and the majority of German factories had a contingent of prisoners.

Michael Thad Allen, "The Business of Genocide", The University of North Carolina Press, 2002. p. 1

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During the war, as Germany acquired new territories (either by direct annexation or by installing puppet governments in defeated countries), these new territories were forced to sell raw materials and agricultural products to German buyers at extremely low prices. Hitler's policy of lebensraum strongly emphasized the conquest of new lands in the East, and the exploitation of these lands to provide cheap goods to Germany. [...] two-thirds of all French trains in 1941 were used to carry goods to Germany. Norway lost 20% of its national income in 1940 and 40% in 1943.

Hans-Joachim Braun, "The German Economy in the Twentieth Century", Routledge, 1990, p. 121

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Fiscal policy was also directed towards exploitation of conquered countries, from which capital was to be gathered for German investments.

Andrzej G—jski, Etapy i cele niemieckiej polityki bankowej w GG. Plany niemieckie wobec Generalnego Gubernatorstwa w latach 1939-1945, BANK I KREDYT, August 2004

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The German balance of payments went strongly negative. In 1933-36 exports declined by 9% in value while imports rose by 9%. - Carr, William Arms, Autarky and Aggression Edward Arnold: London, United Kingdom, 1972 page 53

In the spring and summer of 1936, the reduced availability of foreign currency constrained imports of raw materials, with some key stockpiles falling to only two months' production. - Kershaw, Ian Hitler Nemesis W.W. Norton: New York, New York, United States of America, 2000 page 9

Dr. Schacht informed the War Minister, Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg that lack of lead and copper prevented fulfilling his requests for increased military production. - Carr, William Arms, Autarky and Aggression Edward Arnold: London, United Kingdom, 1972 page 54

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various Polish banks and credit institutions were temporarily closed, while some of their assets were nationalized by the German government. Many people lost their savings.

Andrzej G—jski, Etapy i cele niemieckiej polityki bankowej w GG. Plany niemieckie wobec Generalnego Gubernatorstwa w latach 1939-1945, BANK I KREDYT, August 2004

Zbigniew Landau, Jerzy Tomaszewski, The Polish Economy in the Twentieth Century, Published by Routledge, 1985, ISBN 0709916078, Google Print, p.168-169

[whork]

So your saying the US is gonna declare Third World War soon?

[howardroark]

So your saying the US is gonna declare Third World War soon?

LOL, nope 

Just making fun of reppingfor20 for being a dipshit dumbass.

[whork]

LOL, nope 

Just making fun of reppingfor20 for being a dipshit dumbass.