Chapter 99: Economic Reflections

Hitler's proposal for foreign relations seems to have nothing to do with economic revival, but there is no better way for Germany in this era, because Germany's own economic strength is not weak, and the competitiveness of goods and technology in the world market is strong, so it can be said that even if a mediocre official manages the German economy, the German economy will not be too bad.

In the final analysis, the cause of the collapse of the German economy was the occupation of the Ruhr and the 10 percent tax required by the Treaty of Versailles in the world war.

Hindenburg asked Hitler whether he would revive the German economy without considering the way to retake the Ruhr and without considering the abolition of the 10 percent tax fee stipulated in the Treaty of Versailles.

Will it be possible to revive the German economy with the recovery of the Ruhr industrial zone and the lifting of the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles?

Hitler's answer was no!

The Ruhr industrial zone is too important, most of Germany's heavy industry is in the Ruhr, the most important coal mines and iron mines are also in the Ruhr, Germany has only been established for more than 50 years, and in such a short period of time from a poor agricultural country to the world's second largest industrial country in terms of total economic output, to a large extent, it depends on the Ruhr industrial zone, without the Ruhr industrial zone, Germany can only become a regional power, but not a world power.

Why is the Ruhr industrial area so important?

Because coal is produced and steel is produced.

Because most of the heavy industry is located there, Germany's heavy industry is world-class and is the backbone of the German economy.

So can we make the Ruhr industrial area less important? Coal mines and iron ore can't be transferred, so what if we can move all the industries in the Ruhr industrial area elsewhere?

This is also negative, there are no highways in this era, even large trucks have not yet developed, the main means of transportation relied on are railways and water transport, why the Ruhr industrial area is industrially developed, is because there are both in all directions, leading to France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland The railway is very convenient, and there are many canals in the industrial area, which go directly to all important cities in Europe, near the North Sea, as far as the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, can be reached by river transport, the city of Duisburg in the industrial zone has the largest river port in Germany, It is the center of the steel industry in the country.

If you move the heavy industry in the Ruhr industrial zone to other places, the coal and iron produced in the Ruhr industrial zone will have to be transported by rail to the factory, and then the factory will produce the product, and then the product will be transported and sold, which will be more troublesome, and the cost will be greatly increased.

Just in the Ruhr production, how simple, directly use the Ruhr coal and iron to produce products, and then use the dense transportation network to transport to foreign countries, the Ruhr industry, can not leave the Ruhr.

You see, or you don't see, Ruhl is there, not moving.

After sending Hindenburg away, Hitler was locked up in his room alone, deep in thought, or the question - how to revive the German economy without taking into account the Ruhr industrial area and the abrogation of the Versailles Treaty?

Yes, we have already said that it is impossible, Germany without the Ruhr would not be Germany, and without the Ruhr, the German economy would not be revitalized, but extraordinary people do extraordinary things, and Hitler will become Minister of Commerce and Trade, and the revitalization of the German economy is a problem that he must solve at the moment, and it is also a problem that he must solve as Minister of Commerce and Trade.

He first thought about the development model of the Asian Tigers in later generations -- taking advantage of the superior geographical environment to develop labor-intensive processing industries.

Germany can learn from this development model, Hitler wrote down in his notebook, now Germany has a high unemployment rate, low exchange rate, low wages, and a large number of cheap labor, which can attract capitalists to invest in the coastal areas through policies, Germany has many excellent ports, the geographical location is also good, the center of Europe, suitable for intensive processing industries.

Although the West has not put forward the concept of deindustrialization at this time, most of the industry is still limited to its own territory, but there are exceptions, for the United Kingdom, British cities are too crowded, London at this time is called the "fog capital", the city is often shrouded in a thick layer of black clouds, this is not due to weather and geography, but because Britain as the world's factory, London is the largest industrial city in the United Kingdom, there are many factories, and there are naturally many exhaust gases, which naturally caused public protests, and many factories are fleeing Britain.

Germany, as a country with many ports, has the opportunity to attract these companies to invest in factories.

After thinking about the development model of the Asian tigers in later generations, Hitler also thought about the three-line construction in the later period of New China, which was an extremely large-scale industrial migration process in China's economic history, which occurred against the background of Sino-Soviet relations and the US offensive on China's southeast coast. If the war broke out, China's southeast coast and the entire north might fall, and Chairman Mao made a major strategic decision at this time -- to transfer many factories and construction projects to the southwestern mountainous areas to feed the war, consume the enemy, and preserve national strength. Although the third-line project has caused a lot of losses and consequences, from a strategic point of view, Chairman Mao's decision is completely correct and wise.

The Ruhr in Germany, similar to China's coastal north, is a national frontline, and once a war starts, it is easy to fall.

Foresight, Hitler knew that it was entirely possible for Germany to break out in the Second World War in the future, and the Ruhr would definitely be the target of the enemy's priority bombing, and there seemed to be a punitive action in memory, the Allies blew up the Ruhr dam, killing and wounding many people, flooding large areas of land, and the Ruhr industrial area also suffered an unprecedented blow, and production stopped.

Yes!

Hitler stood up with a whoosh, as if electrified, and said to himself in a trembling voice: "The Ruhr is so important, once the war breaks out, the Ruhr industrial area will be bombed, and the consequences will be unimaginable." If we don't transfer it now, we will inevitably transfer it when the war starts in the future. ”

Hitler had the idea of imitating the third-line policy, transferring factories that could be transferred, and moving them to the mountains of southern Germany.

In wartime, it is inevitable to transfer, this time is a selective transfer, the Ruhr industrial area is occupied, and the products produced have to pay a lot of taxes and fees, but the German factory owners have the right to transfer the factory equipment out and build factories in other places, Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, Berlin, these are excellent bases that can build factories, although there are no unique conditions like the Ruhr, but enterprises will not be unable to survive in these industrial areas.

It is just that leaving the Ruhr is leaving the unique conditions, and for some enterprises that do not rely so much on steel and coal, they must be transferred, and those that must rely on steel and coal will produce in the Ruhr.

"Build highways, convert large freight trucks!" Hitler thought that the world's first highway was built in Germany in 1932, and now there is no highway in the world, not that it has not been proposed, but that the construction of the highway is a big project, which requires a lot of money, and the development of the cash world does not need a highway, it is enough to have a railway.

In fact, highways, railways, water transportation, the three in terms of transportation, especially the transportation of ore, the volume of highways is too small, time-consuming, manpower, and material resources are too much, so it is best not to transport through highways.

Then there will be no market for highways?

No, the competitiveness of the expressway is in the medium range, not near or far away, the highway transport is more advantageous than the train, the expressway is flexible, the railway is short and medium-distance inefficient, compared to the expressway is better. Germany's small size and many canals make it possible to develop a high-speed rail network that will connect factories to various railway stations and ports to facilitate transportation.

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ps: There is still a lot of content to write in this chapter, and I have no time to write it, so I am busy today and tomorrow. Thanks to the book friend "South and North Fantasy" mentioned the third-line project, the axe is about to forget this event, I don't think about it, but the axe still thinks that it is not applicable to Germany, only the reference meaning, as for the specific content of how to revitalize the German economy, there will be later. Of course, if Axe had a plan to increase the country's total economic growth by 5 percent for no reason, I would not write a novel here, but would have written directly to the Central Committee of the Party in the South China Sea, but how to write it, Axe knows in his heart. Besides, I attach great importance to the results of this novel now.,I hope you will support it a lot.,There's no way to update the problem of slow updates.,I want to write a novel full-time.,But I feel like this novel can't make money.,It's not enough to support my family.,I hope you can help.,Let me have a little confidence.。