4 year plan?

[ComradeRed]

Does anyone know this subject well?

[Wenty]

Spent about 1-2 yrs studying nazism for A levels. Four year plan and all. Fire away.

[ComradeRed]

OK, I know nihil about it, so here are my questions:
1) When did it start and end?
2) Was it similiar to the 5 year plan with quotas? E.g. factory x has to make a number of commodity b in c time.
3) If there were quotas, what were they? Which ones were met or exceeded the quotas
4) What industries were affected?

I might have some more as they come up (I am comparing and contrasting stalin's 5 year plan (which is everywhere on the net) and Hitler's 4 year plan (which I cannot find any details on))

Thanks!
ComradeRed

[Wenty]

There is enough out there on the net, i remember having to find some for it.

Anyway, memory time...


When did it start and end?

1936 until 1939/40. It was sidetracked when the war started.



Was it similiar to the 5 year plan with quotas? E.g. factory x has to make a number of commodity b in c time.

Yep. It was basically to equip Germany for war, in fact Hitler wrote a memo saying just that which is pretty rare seeming as he never put much down in writing.


3) If there were quotas, what were they? Which ones were met or exceeded the quotas

Problem here is that they didn't meet the quotas. However, the quotas were just ridiculous. Like Stalin's five year plans they were far too ambitious. They produced a lot in that short period though.


4) What industries were affected?

mmm, eventually Nazism affected all industries but think of the ones that make war materials especially, i.e. steel, oil etc. Goering actually created his own steel factory, which henceforth made the crappest steal imaginable!

Names to look up: Schact before the 4yr plan, Goering during and Speer afterwards. You know Germanys production stats were actually greater in 1945 than in 1941. Ironic.