Wehrwirtschaftn.
/vɛːˈvɪətˌʃaft/ An economic strategy to mobilize the entire economy of a nation for military preparedness or war, originally as a National Socialist policy in Germany in the 1930s.
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Wehrwirtschaft1937
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Junkerism1866
Anschluss1871
Hohenzollernism1915
Spartacism1918
Führer-prinzip1937
Wehrwirtschaft1937
eco-socialism1985
1937 Banker Feb. 134 The Nazis have found their own economic theory, a theory which is peculiar to their ideology... The Nazis call it Wehrwirtschaft, Defence Economics.
1937 Banker Feb. 134 Wehrwirtschaft, which is now claimed to be the economic theory of National Socialism, is..a science which directs all economic life in peace time towards complete military preparedness.
1937 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 19 Sept. 20/3 The chapter..gives an excellent background and analysis of the new Wehrwirtschaft, which is the science of the Nazi economics of directing all economic life in peace-time along totalitarian war lines.
1940 N. Henderson Failure of Mission viii. 198 An economic policy based solely on wehrwirtschaft.
1967 O. Anderson Liberal State at War viii. 274 In short, the Crimean War saw in England the beginning of a coherent appreciation of Wehrwirtschaft, cut short though that beginning was by a sudden peace.
1989 A. E. Fitzgerald Pentagonists xvii. 309 Hitler's wehrwirtschaft (roughly, ‘defense economic system’) was very much like our own parastate cartel of giant defense contractors.
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