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78: Germany Prepares for War Pt. 1 - Overview

History of the Second World War

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The German Economy and the Second Four-Year Plan

Government control of the German economy would be an important theme throughout the last years before the war. It was also critical to decide how to allocate and use their resources that were constrained within the economy. This is again something that was happening in most nations at this time, with increasing government control being an important part of the rearmament process. For Germany, the second four-year plan announced in 1936 would be the final decisive shift towards where government control played in the economy. And it would also move them far away from the free market system that had been used in Germany since the end of the First World War.

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