Industrial Collaboration in Nazi-Occupied Europe Norway in Context [Hardcover]

This book bringstogether leading experts to assess how and whether the Nazis were successful infostering collaboration to secure the resources they required during World WarII. These studies of the occupation regimes in Norway and Western Europe revealthat the Nazis developed highly sophisticated instruments of exploitationbeyond oppression and looting. The authors highlight that in comparison to theheavy manufacturing industries of Western Europe, Norway could provide many rawmaterials that the German war machine desperately needed, such as aluminium,nickel, molybdenum and fish. These chapters demonstrate that the Nazis providedincentives to foster economic collaboration, hoping that these would make everymine, factory and smelter produce at its highest level of capacity. All readerswill learn about the unique part of Norwegian economic collaboration duringthis period and discover the rich context of economic collaboration acrossEurope during World War II.

SectionI. The German Demand for Norwegian Resources.- Chapter1. Ideology and Business Strategy: Assessing Nazi Germanys differentapproaches to the supply of light metals for the Luftwaffe; Lutz Budrass.-Chapter 2. Frozenfillets from the far north: German demand for Norwegian fish; Ole Sparenberg.- Section II. The Western European context: Regulation and Responses.- Chapter 3. Financial andmonetary developments in the occupied Netherlands, 1940-45; Hein A.M. Klemann.-Chapter 4. Doing business with the Hun: Dutch business during the Germanoccupation 1940-1945; Martijn Lak.- Chapter 5. Seizureor Purchase? French deliveries for German purposes in World War II (1940-1944); MarcelBoldorf.- Chapter6. Shades of Collaboration: The French Automobile Industry under GermanOccupation, 1940-1944; Talbot Imlay.- Chapter 7. A Faustian Bargain: Denmark's precarious deal withthe German war economy; JoachimLund.- Chapter 8. Corporatistinstitutions and economic collaboration in occupied Belgium;l“6