| As I understand it, from rooting around the Internet, the United States was always the pre-eminent industrial power. Germany was number two. However, the Soviet Union was gaining on it, having grown at a much faster pace than Germany during the '30s, and any coalition of industrial powers, such as Britain and France, would have exceeded German output. So yes, Germany was very strong in industrial power, but no, it was not as powerful as you are saying, and its economic situation, which has a lot to do with the utilization of capacity, remained precarious. Indeed, it was American capital that largely kept the Weimar Republic afloat, and by the end of the '30s, the Reich was nearly bankrupt......... |
