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Astonishingly, rather than interrupting the Soviet deliveries to prioritize the Luftwaffe, Goering in early October 1940 ordered that, at least until 11 May 1941, deliveries to the Soviet Union, and thus to the Red Army, should have equal priority with the demands of the Wehrmacht. Even in the immediate prelude to operation Barbarossa, Germany could not afford to do without Soviet deliveries of oil, grain and alloys.

"Looting, even when done by Germans, is not an activity that lends itself to precise statistical enumeration."

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While from a security perspective, the Reich wanted its Jewish population expelled as quickly and radically as possible (cfr Lachlan MacNamee), from a fiscal perspective every emigrant meant an outflow of hard currency. Jews were trapped between the anvil of impossibly high exit taxes and the hammer of escalating animosity.

Rather than domestic mobilization creating the conditions for war, international tension was to become the principal lever through which the leadership of the Third Reich - ably assisted both by key industrialists and careerist soldiers - catapulted the German economy into a dramatically higher level of mobilization.

Whereas Hugenberg and the nationalists were loyal to the landowner interest, the 'agrarian bolshevists' who were now in control of the Ministry were rumoured to be planning a massive programme of land reform to break the stranglehold of the aristocracy on the east. Of all the economic measures taken by Hitler's government in its first years, the Erbhof law was the measure marked most distinctively by Nazi Ideology.

Feels like a prelude to Trump’s americs

The aircraft industry was the Third Reich's model of successful state-directed industrial expansion. However, even here there was scope for entrepreneurial initiative. At times, indeed, the German aircraft industry was to become a byword for independent, competitive and often coun-terproductive entrepreneurship.