The Second World War: plans for a new order

Abstract

IN 1939 the British and American economies were still underemployed. The German economy had reached a state of full employment some years previously, but her economic effort during these years, though geared to reducing her dependence on foreign raw materials and to other more direct contributions to her military potential, had not yet reached a state of war economy; the fundamental reorganisation that this implies had not yet been embarked upon.