War and Economy in the Third Reich
- ISBN-10
- 0198202903
- ISBN-13
- 9780198202905
- Category
- Germany
- Pages
- 390
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- R. J. Overy
Description
BL Controversial account of the nature of the German economy in the 1930s and in the Second World War These eleven essays, collected here for the first time with a substantial new introduction, examine the tension between between Hitler's vision of an armed economy and the reality of German economic and social life.
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