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An Inquiry into the Nazi War Economy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Sidney Ratner
Affiliation:
Rutgers University

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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1970

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9 Design for Total War, pp. 183–8. The first gives the percentage of the gross national product absorbed by military expenditures in Germany, England, and the United States, 1929–45. The second, the percentage of the G.N.P. absorbed by private consumption in Germany and the United States, 1929–45. The third, the proportion of government expenditures for goods and services absorbed by military expenditures in Germany, 1929–38 and in the United States, 1939–41. The fourth, the proportion of total investment for military purposes as opposed to investment for civilian purposes in the German economy, 1928–38.

10 Op. cit., pp. 189–90, 262–7.

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