"Guns or butter"

Identifier
9933083199004146
Language of Description
English
Dates
1 Jan 1935 - 31 Dec 1938
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Scope and Content

In the files, Nazi leaders compare the need for butter and the need for weapons. According to Joseph Goebbels, having no butter is not the end of the world, but having guns allows Germany to keep its peace. Hermann Goering discussed whether buying ore or buying butter was more important: Either we buy butter and we abandon freedom or we seek freedom and we abstain from butter. We decided to buy ore.

Note(s)

  • Detailed dates of materials: 1935-1936, 1938

  • Details of bibliographical references are in the content file.

  • Type-scripts, quotations from newspapers and speeches

  • Also available on microfilm reel 109 : frames 138-145

Subjects

  • Food supply--Germany--History--20th century.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Propaganda.
  • National socialism--Economic aspects--Germany.

Places

  • Germany--Economic conditions--20th century.
  • Germany--Economic policy--1933-1945.
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