Yes it does actually. Besides iron which was of low output in the 1930s, Germany did not produce oil or rubber at all, two other major industrial raw materials which had to be imported.
The rise of German iron ore production is quite impressive: from 6.37 million tons in 1929 and 2.59 million tons in 1933 to 7.57 million tons in 1937 and 11.15 million tons in 1938 (including the Saar district). In 1938, domestic iron ore production surpassed imports of iron ore.
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No domestic oil production?
As a highly developed industrial state, Germany was dependent even in peacetime on external sources for an adequate supply of oil. Even though Germany’s 1938 oil consumption of little more than 44 million barrels was considerably less than Great Britain’s 76 million barrels, Russia’s 183 million barrels, and the one billion barrels used by the United States, in wartime Germany’s needs for an adequate supply of liquid fuel would be absolutely essential for successful military operations on the ground and, even more so, in the air. For Germany, it was precisely the outbreak of the war in 1939 and the concurrent termination of overseas imports that most endangered its ability to conduct mobile warfare.
German oil supplies came from three different sources: imports of crude and finished petroleum products from abroad, production by domestic oil fields, and syntheses of petroleum products from coal.
In 1938, of the total consumption of 44 million barrels, imports from overseas accounted for 28 million barrels or roughly 60 percent of the total supply. An additional 3.8 million barrels were imported overland from European sources (2.8 million barrels came from Romania alone), and another 3.8 million barrels were derived from domestic oil production. The remainder of the total, 9 million barrels, were produced synthetically. Although the total overseas imports were even higher in 1939 before the onset of the blockade in September (33 million barrels), this high proportion of overseas imports only indicated how precarious the fuel situation would become should Germany be cut off from them.
The Role of Synthetic Fuel In World War II Germany
Likewise, Germany started producing synthetic gasoline and synthetic rubber (Buna) as early as 1915.
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Petroleum | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1)
So you're telling me that most industrialized nations of that time were defeated in WW 1 and had to pay billions in war reparations? I wonder which history you've been learning.
All Germany's neighbours in Europe (including neutral ones) faced the consequences of industrialization, the effects of WW1 and the economic setbacks of the 1929 stockmarket crash. As for reparations, I've pointed this out to you before:
The Treaty of Versailles and the 1921 London Schedule of Payments required Germany to pay 132 billion gold marks (US$33 billion) in reparations to cover civilian damage caused during the war. This figure was divided into three categories of bonds: A, B, and C. Of these, Germany was only required to pay towards 'A' and 'B' bonds totalling 50 billion marks (US$12.5 billion). The remaining 'C' bonds, which Germany did not have to pay, were designed to deceive the Anglo-French public into believing Germany was being heavily fined and punished for the war.
Because of the lack of reparation payments by Germany, France occupied the Ruhr in 1923 to enforce payments, causing an international crisis that resulted in the implementation of the Dawes Plan in 1924. This plan outlined a new payment method and raised international loans to help Germany to meet her reparation commitments. Despite this, by 1928 Germany called for a new payment plan, resulting in the Young Plan that established the German reparation requirements at 112 billion marks (US$26.3 billion) and created a schedule of payments that would see Germany complete payments by 1988. With the collapse of the German economy in 1931, reparations were suspended for a year and in 1932 during the Lausanne Conference they were cancelled altogether. Between 1919 and 1932, Germany paid less than 21 billion marks in reparations.
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the consensus of contemporary historians is that reparations were not as intolerable as the Germans or Keynes had suggested and were within Germany's capacity to pay had there been the political will to do so.
World War I reparations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Very much similar in fact. Germany of 1936 was a different Germany from 1913. So of course Germanys iron output decreased after its industries suffered from allied war reparations and finally the inflation.
Not at all similar. Iron ore output didn't decrease. Rather, rearmament and infrastructure projects drove up the need for iron ore. Indeed, Germany in 1936 was different from 1913, in that it was preparing for war and running a vampire economy.
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