The Industrial Elites

Question 1

Krupp

Answer 1

-worked in secret to rearm military
-Helped fund NSDAP for march 1933 election (later became President of Ger Chamber of Commerce)

Question 2

Attitudes of big business

Answer 2

-support from coal, steel, armament industries
-reassured abt socialist ideas of NSDAP
-looked to Nazis to bring abt stability
-revival in the economy helped improve env for business

Question 3

How did big business help the Nazis?

Answer 3

-siemens (electronics)
-krupp (steel)
-I.G. Farben (chemicals, Zyklon B) profits (1935-39) increased from 71mill to 240 mill marks

Question 4

automobile industry

Answer 4

-Opel was biggest owned by General Motors in US and was largest producers of trucks
-1935 plant near Berlin to produce the Blitz truck
-Henry Ford helped fund the NSDAP election 1933
-Volkswagen promoted and workers paid into savings scheme for ‘people’s car’ but never worked bc a quality car couldn’t be created for Hitler’s price

Question 5

response to industrial non co-operation?

Answer 5

-replaced by state owned industrial facilities
-Ruhr steelworks replaced by Herman Goering Works

Question 6

Herman Goring Steelworks

Answer 6

-600k employees
-given priority over private companies in allocation of materials etc
-1939 largest industrial enterprise in Europe
-As Ger expanded so did the business into Austria etc

Question 7

help to agriculture

Answer 7

-1933 Reich Entailed Farm Law= peasant farms couldn’t be seized by banks
-1935 Reich Labour Service= unemployed young men had to do 6 months labour
-Schacht’s policies resulted in food shortages and rising prices 1935-6

Question 8

agriculture and autarky

Answer 8

-self sufficiency in food supply
-Ger’s couldn’t afford luxuries
-High value food was in shortage
-1939 food production targets not met