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How Occupied France Financed Its Own Exploitation in World War II
Filippo Occhino , Kim Oosterlinck , Eugene N. White

NBER Working Paper No. 12137
Issued in April 2006
NBER Program(s):    DAE

The occupation payments made by France to Nazi Germany between 1940 and 1944 represent one of the largest recorded international transfers and contributed significantly to financing the overall German war effort. Using a neoclassical growth model that incorporates essential features of the occupied economy and the postwar stabilization, we assess the welfare costs of French policies that funded payments to Germany. Occupation payments required a 16 percent reduction of consumption for twenty years, with the draft of labor to Germany and wage and price controls adding substantially to this burden. Vichy’s postwar debt overhang would have demanded large budget surpluses; but inflation, which erupted after Liberation, reduced the debt well below its steady state level and redistributed the adjustment costs. The Marshall Plan played only a minor direct role, and international credits helped to substantially lower the nation’s burden.

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Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w12137

Published: Filippo Occhino & Kim Oosterlinck & Eugene N. White, 2007. " How Occupied France Financed Its Own Exploitation in World War II, " American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 97(2), pages 295-299, May. citation courtesy of
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