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Commercial and Colonial Policies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2011

Mary E. Townsend
Mary E. Townsend
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Columbia University
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When Hitler based so much of his campaign of 1936–1937 for the return of the colonies upon the Fatherland's economic need of them, he was reverting to the pattern of Germany's colonial history. It mattered not that the economic value of these colonies had been proven negligible or, at least, problematical so far as any advantage in trade and raw materials accruing to the empire was concerned. He and the Nazi leaders continued to stress the economic motive of expansion and aggression; to emphasize the close connection between commercial and colonial policies which had always characterized German imperialism.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 3 , Supplement S1 , 1943 , pp. 124 - 134
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1943

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References

1 Speech to the Reichstag, June 30, 1937.

2 Schacht, H. G., “Germany's Colonial Demands,” Foreign Affairs, January, 1937.Google Scholar

3 Earle, E. P., Turkey, the Great Powers and the Bagdad Railway (New York, 1933), ch. iii.Google Scholar

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7 See infra., 132–133.

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10 Total value of colonial trade rose from 71,213,000 M., in 1904, to 263,400,000 M., in 1913. Compiled from Die deutsche Schutzgebiete, Amtliche Denkschriften.

11 It is also of interest to follow the influence of the traders and the colonists in determining the tariff schedules in the various colonies. Generally they were consulted and tariff duties were arranged to protect their interests. In this connection see an excellent monograph on this subject: Kucklentz, K., Das Zollwesen der deutschen Schutzgebiete (Halle, 1913).Google Scholar

12 Die Neue Zeit (1906), 617.

13 Verhandlungen des Deutschen Reichstags, June 26, November 26, 1884 and January 19, March 13, 1885.

14 Verhandlungen des Deutschen Reichstags, November 26, 1884.

15 Ibid. 1905–1906, vol. Ill, pp. 2257 ff, 2236 ff; vol. V, pp. 3981 ff, 4065 ff.

16 December 13, 1906, Sonderausgabe.

17 For the most recent interpretation of this parliamentary crisis, interesting from the point of view of its effect upon expansion see Crothers, G. D., The German Elections of 1907 (New York, 1941).Google Scholar

18 Norddeutscke Allgemeine Zeitung, Nos. 57, 29, February 1, 3, 1907.