Nazi Germany funded economic programs like the autobahn through deficit financing and creative credit schemes like Mefo bills.
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Historical and economic literature confirms that Nazi Germany financed its rapid economic recovery and rearmament programs through extensive deficit spending and creative credit schemes, most notably the use of Mefo bills managed by Hjalmar Schacht.
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Hitler's Money The Bills of Exchange and Rearmament in the Third Reich
2002 · cited by 2
Paper [3] highlights the monetary contrivances and bills of exchange used by Hjalmar Schacht to engineer the Nazi economic recovery.
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From Crisis to Consolidation: Hyperinflation’s Role in Hitler’s Rise and Germany’s Economic Resurgence
2023 · cited by 0
Paper [5] details how the regime utilized innovative MEFO bills and deficit-oriented economic policies to stimulate the economy and fund rearmament without triggering immediate open inflation.
The "Nazi Economic Miracle" Reconsidered: Financial Engineering, Regulation, and the Political Economy of Unsustainable Rearmament (1933-1939)
2026 · cited by 0
Paper [6] explains how the Nazi regime expanded public spending while obscuring the true deficit through off-budget instruments like the MEFO bill system supported by the Reichsbank.