"We must export in order to buy oodstufls and secondly, we musi—since this export needs Taw materials which we do not have—export_ still more to cover these raw materials.
And if foreign statesmen threaten with I do not know what economic counter-measures, 1-can only say that In such case a trade war of despair would begin which would be an easy tone for us. It would be easier than for the saturated other nations because the motive for our economic lo would be a very simple namely, the, German people either live meaning export or die, as for its live—meaning export—or die. As for leaders, 1 can only state they are ready for everything.
"That we must devote such a high per cent. of our national labour to Jarmamenits. which in themselves. are not productive, is regrettable, but cannot be changed. Tu the ast analysis, the economy of the Third Reich st of falls with the security of the state.
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