The Economic Policy of Hitler’s Germany in the Occupied Countries of Northern Europe as Views of Foreign Historians

Abstract

This article discusses the evolution of the views of foreign historians on economic goals of Nazi Germany in relation to Norway and Denmark and the methods for their implementation. The problem of economic collaboration — cooperation between the owners and management staff of industrial and banking companies in occupied countries with concerns and economic departments of the Third Reich is a theme that has been increasingly studied by historians in the last decade. The main attention author paid to the analysis of the views of national historians, as well as researchers from the UK, the USA, the FRG and the GDR, whose works contributed to the intensification of the study of this topic in Norwegian and Danish historiographies. The author concludes that not all researchers are interested in an impartial examination of the relationship between the Nazi authorities and the business community.