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Was Germany wealthy during WW2?

Was Germany wealthy as a nation during WW2?

And if so, how wealthy? (in comparison to a modern nation)

Thanks!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Once hyperinflation started in Germany the USA started investing in Hitler and the Workers party from about 1924

    and in 1933 Prescott Bush FDR and the Rockefeller Financial company and other Wall street companies Loaned Hitler 600 million to win the election and Hitler had the largest party and he was appointed Chancellor and even More money pored in

    GM built his tanks Ford Built his trucks SKF provided all the ball bearings on credit

    other US owned Companies supported the NAZIS like Du Pont IG farben coca cola and supplied Goods on credit

    Hitlers Biggest supporter was Standard Oil it is a fact that standard oil its subsidiaries throughout europe were Refueling U Boats and Surface Ships of the NAZI empire

    and when the Germans started to loose in 1940 with their Inability to capture the Egyptian Oil Fields

    Standard oil and IG Farben Built a Petrochemical Plant where they manufacture Synthetic Oil Rubber fuel aviation Fuel from coal to the Formulas developed by standard Oil and th ensure the factory was efficient IBM built a computer to do the Job

    and where did the US company of IG Farben Build this petrochemical company ???

    AUSCHWITZ

    the tiger tanks used in the battle of the Bulge the engines were designed to run on Standard Oil's formulas

    this Link explains who when where and How Much

    So much for being Neutral Isolationists

    http://www.reformation.org/wall-st-hitler.html is really good Reading

    i have never owned a Ford A GM Chrysler and about 1000 other companies that supported the Regime that tried to Kill me and then said But we are your Friends

    I actually owner a car from a company that was Honest and Up front with me In WW2

    a 1964 220Sb Mercedes Benz

    Source(s): Retired Warrant Officer after 38 years in the Air Force and a survivor of Hitlers Blitz on London
  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Germany During Ww2

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Well, sometimes the old buildings were rebuilt, sometimes new buildings were built in their place. In Düsseldorf, for instance, the city hall was rebuilt as it used to be (of course). And the tour guide could tell us exactly which were the original walls and which walls were rebuilt. (You couldn't tell the difference.) ... Also, there are some houses that were not destroyed because they were on the other side of the Rhine and there were no targets there. And then there's also a pretty ugly bridge called the "Tausendfüssler" (millipede) because it has so many supports. That was built in a place where the original buildings were not rebuilt. I guess it depended on what kind of building it was. If it was the city hall, or a church, or another famous building, it would be rebuilt. By the way, did you know that there's a church in Berlin, called "Gedächtniskirche" that has been half destroyed by a bomb and has been left that way? And in the eastern part of Berlin, there's a synagogue that suffered the same fate. It has also been left as it was and is now a museum.

  • D S
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    No,

    The Nazis ran what is called a war economy. They borrowed money from the people, they printed money, they stole it from Jewish people and political opponents.

    That was then used to build up the army and start the war.

    The people were poorer than their neighbouring countries France, UK, Netherlands etc. Food and clothing as well as fuel was rationed.

    They then looted Poland and all the other countries they occupied during the war and used that for the war effort. but that could only last so long.

    After 1945, the entire Continent including the UK were having a tough time since everyone had to use all the resources for the war effort and so much of the agriculture and the industrial facilities had been destroyed. Many died in the winter of 1946.

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  • 1 decade ago

    After stealing the gold and valuables from Jewish families, the Nazi Party was definitely wealthier than before. Britian and America were still much wealthier, but Germany was on a par with Italy, the Soviet Union and perhaps a little ahead of France.

    For a modern comparison, I would put Hitler's GNP at about the same as that of Poland and Romania combined.

  • 1 decade ago

    Germans had the highest standard of living in Europe till about 1943 when the course of the war forced the government to shift to a total war economy. Remember, the years before the war across Europe was the Great Depression: high unemployment, drastic wage cuts for those still with jobs, falling commodity prices for farmers, constantly reduced unemployment compensation in those few countries that had it. But Germany had virtually full employment from late 1934 through a combination of dramatic state intervention in the economy to stimulate production and jobs (pre-Keynes Keynesian economic policies) and rapid military rearmament that likewise stimulated heavy industry. Conscripting young men still out of work into the military also helped eliminate unemployment. The Nazi regime also expanded social welfare services, justified by Nazi ideas of protecting and expanding the "Aryan race." During the early stages of the war when Germany was largely victorious, occupied Europe served as a cornucopia of looted resources that enriched German business while providing cheap consumables to the German citizenry. Food from France, the largest agricultural economy in Europe, low-cost raw materials from dependent allies like Romania (oil) or nervous neutrals like Sweden (nickel), property stolen from Jews, or from ethnic minorities in newly annex territories like the Sudetenland, grain from the occupied Ukraine all meant that living standards for the average German continued to rise through the early part of the war. This did not last beyond 1943 of course, but for almost ten years before that Germans where economically better off than other Europeans, and perhaps Americans, too given the Depression.

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    5 years ago

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  • 1 decade ago

    Not at all. Hitler's party (German Workers --> National Socialist) came to power by trying to remedy the extreme poverty in Germany after WWI. He advocated communal meals, where all came together and shared. His extermination policies towards "Gypsies; Jews & undesirables" was also part of this.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I know after World War I they weren't wealthy at all. They were in tremendous debt because they were forced to pay for all the damage inflicted by the war. That's why Hitler rose to power because the Germans felt weak and defenseless.

  • 1 decade ago

    no, they had rationing and a shortage of most things once the first year of the war was over.

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