Doing Business with the Nazis: Britain’s Economic and Financial Relations with Germany 1931-39

By Neil Forbes.

Britain’s financial and economic relations with Nazi Germany are assessed in this book. The structure and formulation of British policy, the interaction of government and business and the relationship between British business interests and Nazi Germany are looked at. A particular focus of the book is on the crisis of uncertainty felt in Britain over the rejection of economic internationalism. Sterlings devaluation and the imposition of tariffs opened up a breach with Europe which exerted a severely destabilising influence. In the face of economic nationalism at home and abroad, leading figures in British commercial and political life struggled to preventa complete breakdown of relations with Germany – the most important trading partner in Europe.

Neil Forbes is Professor of International History at Coventry University.

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