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Armament of NS-Germany and its expansion into Czech lands in 1939

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2019

Abstract

The study focuses on an economic downturn in Nazi Germany as a result of its armament. The situation was temporarily mitigated by resources gained by annexation of Austria, Czech borderland and especially Czech lands.

An exploitation of Czech resources was managed by system of NS-German representatives who controlled economic ministries and National Bank. NS-German bank branches (Dresdner Bank and Deutsche Bank) played the same role in order to confiscate Jewish property in protectorate (Böhmische Escompte Bank a Böhmische Bank Union).

The main German win in Czech lands was a take-over of arms industry that gives Germany a temporary advantage in industrial production over Great Britain and France.