War and Economy in the Third Reich

by Richard Overy

Book Overview

When Hitler came to power in 1933 he had two aims for the economy: a rapid recovery from the depths of the Great Slump and the creation of a vast economic foundation for Germany's renewed bid for world power. These eleven essays explore the tension between Hitler's vision of an armed economy and the reality of German economic and social life. Richard Overy argues that the German economy was much less crisis-ridden in 1939 than its enemies supposed,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198205996
• ISBN13: 9780198205999
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"