Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 357: Minister of Economy (Part 2)
The master only knows that Chai Mi is expensive, and the financial situation in Germany once made the new head of state a headache. You must go all out in battle. During the European war, Germany's military expenditures were astronomical. But in order to win, these costs cannot be saved.
The militarist economy. This is Hitler's positioning for the German economy. His goal is to build Germany into a military dictatorship like Sparta and ancient Rome. In the future, the purpose of the Germans' survival is to continuously develop the military to fight on the battlefield, while other ethnic groups in the ruling area become vassals of the Germans. Their responsibility is to work hard and produce various products to support the German army. This is the so-called large space theory of the Nazis. All countries conquered by Germany are included in this "living space". Each nation and country perform their duties to maintain the survival needs of the people in the entire "living space", and strive to achieve no need Outside support can also be self-sufficient.
Poland, Slovakia, and Bohemia will become Germany’s granary, supplying necessary agricultural products to the Empire, Scandia and the Balkans will provide industrial raw materials to the Empire, and lowland countries such as Belgium and Luxembourg will process products for the Empire. France It will be fully agriculturalized and become an important source of imperial agricultural products and various mineral resources. Under the systematic management of Germany, a super economy with Berlin as its core will be established throughout Europe. All industries, agriculture, commerce and finance will be Orderly proceeded under the leadership of Germany.
This is just the first step in Hitler's huge vision. When all of this is achieved, his millennium empire is considered to be established. Hitler's ultimate goal is to conquer the entire world and make the Germans a unique ruling nation.
Now it seems that this is simply a madman dreaming in the daytime, but at the time it was enthusiastically sought after by a lot of "smart people". This is not a magical magic, it is completely caused by the real environment in Germany at that time .
Hitler firmly grasped the psychology of the Germans. He had a deep understanding of the nationality of the Germans. The First World War did not hurt the soul of the German Empire. The fallen German giant always thought about it. Vent hatred. A country accustomed to the leadership of authority, a group of people living in misery and poverty, they need a strong and wise autocratic leader to lead them, point out their goals, give them hope, and break the allies imposed on them. The shackles regain the pride and glory of the nation.
Hitler's sudden death led him to become a hero of the German nation, an unblemished great man, who inherited everything he had, Xu Jun, and also inherited his responsibilities.
"The industrial transformation cannot be interrupted. This has been determined." Xu Jun said while looking at the report in front of him.
"My head of state, this question can be put on hold for the time being. Now that the newly injected funds are in place, the question before us is how to allocate them reasonably." Schacht rubbed his temples and replied, this time He put all his mind and body into the work at hand, after all, he was not forgiving at a young age, and he found that his physical strength and energy were not as good as before.
Because of Xu Jun’s intervention, the spoils that Germany won from the French occupation area were not as rich as in history. Although the amount of compensation in France is considerable, it also means that it cannot be prepared in a short time, otherwise the French economy will Will crash immediately. However, correspondingly, Xu Jun was more ruthless than Hitler for Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Norway. The gold and foreign exchange reserves that these countries hurriedly transferred to France all fell into German hands. This is a considerable amount of money, enough to make up for Germany's debt hole. Xu Jun has made up his mind. Even if those countries come up with evidence to recover them in the future, Germany will definitely not admit it.
Germany's conquest of Britain turned into a feast, and Xu Jun won a lot of extra spoils. What's different from history is that with the surrender of Britain, the war in Europe has basically ended, saving a lot of expenditure on war consumption.
Actually, in Xu Jun's time and space, the total profit gained by Germany in European wars far exceeded that of Hitler's Germany in history. The seized foreign exchange and bearer stocks alone are sufficient to repay all the debts that are due, and there may be a balance. At the same time, the German army seized a large number of bonds in the national bank of the occupying power, many of which were issued by Germany itself. Of course, the money did not need to be repaid.
There are piles of gold, silver, jewellery, antiques and works of art, as well as tens of billions of national currencies. In order to avoid the economic collapse of the occupying power, Germany returned a small part of it for the government to stabilize the economy and restore production order. But the bulk of it was shipped back to Germany and locked in the underground vault of the Reich National Bank.
The German government claimed to be the occupying power’s war reparations and economic restructuring reserves. In fact, the low countries of Western Europe did not have the power to allocate these funds. The shrewd Schacht also converted the funds into Deutsche Marks, and in turn provided low-interest loans to the other party, taking the financial power of various countries in his own hands in disguise.
Although the victory of the war rescued the German economy that was on the brink of collapse, the top empires who knew the inside knew that this was only a temporary phenomenon. If Germany still adheres to the original economic policy, the crisis will surely come again. And next time there will still be good luck, no one can guarantee it.
"Regarding the allocation of funds, we have previously determined a framework under which the Ministry of Economic Affairs must formulate a detailed distribution plan. As I said before, I will not intervene in this aspect. You deal with it, I just need to know whether this year's military expansion plan can get enough financial support." Xu Jun stared into Schacht's eyes and said word by word.
"As you wish, my head of state, with our current reserves, the funding problem can be guaranteed. It’s just that I personally hope that it is best not to have additional planned expenditures before the end of the year. Our deficit this year has just been eased. But this is only data on paper, and we still have to leave some room for next year's government budget." Schacht replied respectfully.
"We want to expand the foreign trade market and expand the types of export commodities. Nowadays, the European market is sluggish, and countries are seeking compensation in overseas markets. For example, Britain and France are currently increasing investment in various dominions and colonies. Those overseas markets recovered the losses after the European war." Funke reported from the side.
"Civil products need to increase production, what new data feedback is there on labor." Xu Jun turned his head to look at Franz Saidet, the minister of the German Ministry of Labor.
When Hitler was in power, the minister was just a powerless person. Although the former "Steel Helmet" leader led his party to merge into the Nazi Party, he never got Hitler's Trust, even Hitler did not reserve his puppet-like position in his dying political will.
At that time, it was the German Labor Front, a subordinate organization of the Nazi Party, that really controlled the deployment of German labor. The leader of this organization, Robert Ley, held great powers. This organization has included all German citizens at this time, whether they are workers, farmers, entrepreneurs, businessmen or freelancers, even Nazi Party employees and state civil servants, as long as they involve production and management labor relations, all belong to labor. In the management category of the front.
Robert Ley was an alcoholic villain, but he was very fond of Hitler, because he was always on Hitler's side in all the early internal disputes of the Nazi Party, and he was a model of loyalty. Xu Jun did not have the slightest affection for this person, so when Hitler died, Ley was immediately arrested and executed by the SS.
The current leader of the German Labor Front is Hans Durman, a little-known person in the eyes of outsiders, only because he won the favor of the new head of state, he was able to succeed. Most people think that he is actually just a cover, and it is the head of the empire who really controls everything behind his back. But even if this is true, what does it matter? No one will object to this. It is not justified which organization the head of state wants to control.
Because of Ley’s killing, the German Labor Ministry finally took back part of its power. Saidet began to be busy every day. Only then did he really feel the charm of the slogan Ley put forward. Gain strength from happiness", the Minister of Labor now firmly believes in this.
"The current labor gap is very large, especially after the completion of today’s conscription plan, we estimate that the gap in the agricultural labor force alone will reach more than one million. We are compiling reports from various local agricultural self-government groups and the specific figures. It will be summed up within a week. If the factory continues to recruit workers from local areas, this situation will continue to worsen." Saidet pushed a form to Xu Jun~IndoMTL.com~The rural labor force in Germany has been Drain is a long-standing problem. In addition to the recruitment of various arms of the National Defense Forces, a large number of industrial production companies are also competing with rural areas for population.
In order to make up for the gap in this area, Hitler even used administrative means to order all German urban youth to participate in voluntary labor in the countryside every year, as an assessment project to enforce it, and those who dare to evade will be expelled The Labor Service Corps also deprived of the "work manual", which is necessary to find a job in Germany. He also ordered that all German women under the age of 25 must have one year of working experience in the countryside, otherwise they will not be able to participate in industrial and commercial work.
Hitler even forced companies to prohibit employees with more than three years of agricultural work experience, which is tantamount to directly preventing farmers from entering the factory.
However, even if such a series of orders are issued, they are actually only a temporary solution, and the labor shortage in Germany has not been effectively resolved. In 41 years in history, the shortage of agricultural labor in Germany has reached two million, and the total labor gap in other industries has reached about one million.
In addition to recruiting a large number of women into light-strength jobs in Nazi Germany, German agricultural workers basically can only rely on seeking supplements from the occupied territories and allies. By the end of the war, almost all of the work in the German farmland was It's Polish and Italian workers.
"The situation will get better. Regarding this problem, I believe it will be partially resolved before the end of the year. The Ministry of Labor has to come up with a plan on how to deploy the newly acquired labor force." Xu Jun passed the form to him. Tysenhofen.