Using the sources and your own knowledge do you agree with the view that "Hitler's masterful organisation of the German economy made him both immensely popular and able to fight a prolonged war to 1945?"

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Using the sources and your own knowledge do you agree with the view that "Hitler's masterful organisation of the German economy made him both immensely popular and able to fight a prolonged war to 1945?"

In Hitler's Four Year Plan Memorandum of August 1936, he outlined that "The German economy must be fit for war within four years." In order to do this, he believed it was first necessary to "put a stop to the everlasting fluctuations of wages and prices" as set out by Hitler in source one. A scheme such as this would indeed prove "immensely popular." From the evidence shown in this statement, it could be assumed that it is true to say "Hitler's masterful organisation of the German economy made him both immensely popular and able to fight a prolonged war to 1945," however whether these effects were carried to full fruition and indeed whether they were to the fault of the F(hrer is a matter which may come under scrutiny.

There is evidence to suggest that many economic plans laid down by Hitler led to the growth and expansion of the economy and the ability to fight a prolonged war until