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* [[Brutal Honesty]]: William Darre, as early as 1936, had this to say about how Germany (in his role as the German agricultural ministry leader) could solve it's agrarian issues, which was a pretty clear statement of intent prior to 1939:
{{quote|'''''The natural area for settlement by the German people is the territory to the east of the Reich’s boundaries up to the Urals, bordered in the south by the Caucasus, Caspian Sea, Black Sea and the watershed which divides the Mediterranean basin from the Baltic and the North Sea. We will settle this space, according to the law that a superior people always has the right to conquer and to own the land of an inferior people.'''''}}
** Hitler had a moment of doing this. While he generally avoided making concrete comments on the state of the war,in 1942, while discussing the need for coking coal for the steel industry with Paul Pleiger, he was uncharacteristically direct and to the point:
{{quote|'''''Herr Pleiger, if, due to the shortage of coking coal the output of the steel industry cannot be raised as planned, then the war is lost.'''''}}
* [[Can't Catch Up]]: Due to the backwards agricultural sector of the German economy, under their existing system and due to the limited amount of arable land available to German farmers, they were doomed to this trope. Hitler's war plans were intended explicitly to remedy this.
** Because of the conscious decisions of Nazi ideology, the possibility of the German economy becoming anything other than an outlaw nation scheming to make up for it's shortfalls via conquest was this. Tooze notes that by shunning foreign credit and their obsession with autarky the Nazis guaranteed the Germans would have little enough extra capital to raise the standard of living of the average German or promote enough trade to make prices go down enough to make many items considered luxuries become competitive enough to be affordable to most standard workers.
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