Evaluate the Nazis economic policies from 1933 V 1939.
It is almost a universal conception that Hitler deliberately provoked World War II for his personal desires. Some historians prove this belief by Hitler's biography "My Struggle" (Mein Kampf) and his series of bold and aggressive foreign policies. While others confirm this notion by demonstrating the objectives of pre-war Nazis economic policies. They claim that Hitler immediately started carrying out rearmament program and various war-preparatory measures once he came to power in 1933. Because of his lack of planning and ignorance to the economic situation, he failed to prepare Germany for a major war by 1939, and he even failed to deal with Germany's own economic problems in 1932. However, this claim is not well justified. In fact, Hitler did put a lot of emphasis on economic recovery in the first three years of his regime. It is not until 1936 did he start accentuating his warfare programs. As a consequence, considering the time duration, the progress that the Nazi leaders made with their policies, and the "Blitzkrieg" war aim proposed by Hitler, actually Hitler was very successful in arming Germany and making Germany ready for a series of short but speedy wars by 1939 when he invaded Poland.
Not only were there economic recovery and reorganization taking place in the cities, but there were also two important measures performed in the rural areas of Germany as well. The first one was the emergence of "Reich Food Estate" (Reichsnahrstand) in the summer of 1933. Under this policy, every agricultural sector was reorganized in this Estate, "which is a self-administrative statutory corporation comprising all individuals and organization concerned in the distribution as well as the production of agricultural commodities" . In other words, this was served to stabilize food prices and control the amount of production. While the second measure was the Hereditary Farm Law (Erbhofgesetz) carried out in the fall of 1933. As it was written in the moral doctrine of Nazis economic principle, that "public interest before self-interest" , this law "had the effect of protecting large and medium-sized farms at the expense of the small peasantry" . Under this act, the "hereditary farms" so-called "were not to be mortgaged, could not be sold, were indivisible and passed from father to eldest son" . It was hoped that "farms [were] large enough to be self-sustaining" . Hence, it sowed the seed for agricultural self-sufficiency and it further stabilized the quantity, prices and marketing of agricultural produce. To summarize, under these two schemes, all the farms were cartel zed and nationalized, and all the agricultural activities were put under the government control and taken out of the free economy and direct capital supply . Some people might rise up this question V How could Nazi government sponsor that many constructions and programs when the government was still in deficit? The answer is through issuing the government loan. There were different kinds of long-term and short-team loans, such as "Supplier Treasury Bills" (Lieferschatzanweisungen) and "Reich Loans" (Li-An-liehen). One of the very famous examples is the "Mefo-Bills", which were "three-monthly papers, could be extended to six months, drawn by firms with limited capital supplying material to the Armed Forces, ¥accepted' by the Mefo and then discounted at the Reichsbank or sold to the capital market" . This bill met about one-fifth of all expenditure for the armed forces in the years from 1933 until the outbreak of war .
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Approximate Pages = 12 (250 words per page double spaced)
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