7.2 Did Hitler Make Germany ‘self-sufficient’?

Question 1

Who was Hjalmar Schacht?

Answer 1

• the minister of economics for the Nazis
• appointed in 1933 by Hitler
• he was sacked

Question 2

Who succeeded Schacht?

Answer 2

• Herman Goering

Question 3

What scheme was introduced in 1936?

Answer 3

• Four Year Plan
• to get ready for war
• huge amounts of weapons and equipment was ordered creating jobs and high production targets set
• Goering was attempting to make Germany self sufficient

Question 4

What did Germans have to rely on to be self- sufficient?

Answer 4

• own resources and find alternatives for things it needed or developed artificial substance
• stop trading with other countries
• petrol from coal
• coffee from acorns

Question 5

How did the Nazi’s help farmers?

Answer 5

-30% of population farmers
-Hitler needed farmers to produce more for country to become self sufficient
- rewarded farmers and tried to save them from the Depression
- cut taxes and guaranteed they couldn’t get thrown off their land if they got into debt
-laws that stopped farmers dividing up their land introduced to keep farms large and under the same families for generations

Question 6

Four Year Plan

Answer 6

Attempts by the Nazis to increase agricultural and industrial production, regulate imports and exports, and achieve self sufficiency in the production of raw materials

Question 7

Self sufficient

Answer 7

Having a ‘closed economy’ which meant that the Nazis tried to stop trading with the outside world and rely entirely on its own resources