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Although Hitler was warned by many high-ranking military officers, such as Friedrich Paulus, that occupying Western Russia would create "more of a drain than a relief for Germany's economic situation," he anticipated compensatory benefits such as the demobilisation of entire divisions to relieve the acute labour shortage in German industry, the ...
A major historiographical debate about the relationship between the German pre-war economy and foreign policy decision-making began in the late 1980s, when historian Timothy Mason claimed that an economic crisis had caused a "flight into war" in 1939.
The Four Year Plan was a series of economic measures initiated by Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany in 1936. Hitler placed Hermann Göring in charge of these measures, making him a Reich Plenipotentiary (Reichsbevollmächtigter) whose jurisdiction cut across the responsibilities of various cabinet ministries, including those of the Minister of Economics, the Defense Minister and the Minister of ...
This is a list of wars involving Germany from 962. It includes the Holy Roman Empire, Confederation of the Rhine, the German Confederation, the North German Confederation, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, the German Democratic Republic (DDR, "East Germany") and the present Federal Republic of Germany (BRD, until German reunification in 1990 known as "West Germany").
This is a list of wars and armed conflicts involving Russia and its predecessors in chronological order, from the 9th to the 21st century.. The Russian military and troops of its predecessor states in Russia took part in a large number of wars and armed clashes in various parts of the world: starting from the princely squads, opposing the raids of nomads, and fighting for the expansion of the ...
In 2023, Germany experienced economic difficulties as a result of the closure of Russian natural gas resources due to the international sanctions against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [133] Germany imported 55% of its gas from Russia at the time Russia started the invasion in 2022. [ 134 ]
Hitler required Soviet help to procure rubber from the Far East, the shortage of which had caused Germany problems in World War I. [1] Rubber production in Malaya and the East Indies was dominated by the British and the Dutch. [1] Cutting off these sources would leave Germany with stockpiles for only two months. [1]
The whaler on HMS Sheffield being manned with an armed boarding party to check a neutral vessel stopped at sea, 20 Oct 1941. The Blockade of Germany (1939–1945), also known as the Economic War, involved operations carried out during World War II by the British Empire and by France in order to restrict the supplies of minerals, fuel, metals, food and textiles needed by Nazi Germany – and ...