The Four-Year Plan and the industrial elites

Question 1

How had Schacht hidden the balance of payments problem?

Answer 1

By a series of clever financial tricks

Question 2

By the mid-1930s the economic debate was popularly summed up by the question of?

Answer 2

Guns or butter?

Question 3

The secret memorandum presented to Goring in August 1936 is one of the most significant documents of Nazi history as it provides a clear insight into Hitler’s war aims and the development of the economy, what did he conclude by writing?

Answer 3

The German armed forces must be operational within four years
The German economy must be fit for war within four years

Question 4

The introduction of the Four-Year plan resolved what?

Answer 4

The politco-economic crisis of 1936