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GCSE History · key term
Economic self-sufficiency: producing the food and resources a country needs without relying on imports.
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Revise: Economic ChangesGermany depended on imported food and raw materials, so he sought autarky, or self-sufficiency. The experience of the First World War, when a blockade had restricted supplies, made this dependence seem especially dangerous.
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Economic self-sufficiency: producing enough food and raw materials within a country to reduce dependence on imports.
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The Nazis also wanted autarky: greater economic self-sufficiency. Germany depended on imported food and raw materials. Hitler wanted to reduce this dependence so that foreign supplies, or a blockade like the one experienced during the First World War, would not undermine Germany’s ability to fight.