The Nazi Four Year Plan

[lisset]

which had been broken by the German-Polish non-aggression pact of January 1934.

Which the Germans broke in 1939 when they invaded Poland - this encirclement did not prevent them signing a pact with Russia which in effect gave them a free hand to wage war , thefate of Poland speaks volumes for the German and russian goverments of the day.

[Igor Karpov]

Ministerialrat Marotzke will be the personal delegate [Referent] of the State Secretary.

Later he was Ministerialdirektor.

Regards,
Igor

[Zebedee]

Steel allocation to the military was flat from 1938 to 1944 [~ 800-900k per month] even though weaponary out put leaped 5 fold in the same period.

Quarterly Steel allocations: Wehrmacht total/direct armaments (weight is for finished steel and in 000 monthly tons)

1937
Q2 300
Q3 235
Q4 268

1938
Q1 302
Q2 325
Q3 658
Q4 593

1939
Q1 525
Q2 628
Q3 575
Q4 859

1940
Q1 924
Q2 880
Q3 900
Q4 1017

1941
Q1 1000
Q2 1040
Q3 1120
Q4 1032

1942
Q1 1153
Q2 1073
Q3 994
Q4 1253

1943
Q1 1414
Q2 1475
Q3 1298
Q4 1269

1944
Q1 1338
Q2 1363
Q3 1246
Q4 1179

(Source: Table A3, Tooze, The Wages of Destruction, Allen Lane, 2006).

[Keir]

Thought I'd contribute a photo of the Reich Central Office for the Implementation of the Four Year Plan beside Hess's office at 9 Meiserstrasse in Munich as I was walking past the other day.