The Reich did not import as much as to plunder the agricultural regions of Poland and did a lot of "trade" with France, which after all is one of the best nations for agriculture there is in the world.Stas Bush wrote:Again, Germany produced ~27,5 million tons of grain annually; the Soviet imports were about 4,5% of the total German grain harvest. I'm not sure where else the Greater Reich imported grain from - if it did, the Soviet imports' importance diminishes further yet.
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Yeah, once the Reich got France, they started plundering grain, I know that. About 750 000 tons at first, maybe more later. I'm not sure on the figures.
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I know Germany was running up a huge trade deficient in the Balkans they never intended to pay. I assume it would be mostly in raw material.
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The Reich got to first plunder central Europe and then western Europe. For the world's third largest industrial economy to gain those resources and then do so little with them is most telling in the defeat of Germany.Stas Bush wrote:Yeah, once the Reich got France, they started plundering grain, I know that. About 750 000 tons at first, maybe more later. I'm not sure on the figures.
The comparison with Russian production per unit of resource is staggering.