Sweden's iron ore exports to Germany, 1933–1944

Abstract

Rolf Karlbom's article about Swedish iron ore exports to Germany during the Nazi era¹ is an attempt to examine a very important problem as yet unsolved—the significance of the Swedish ore deliveries to Germany. His study begins with the following two questions:²

1.	‘How much of the total consumption of this raw material by German industry did Swedish ore cover during these years?’
2.	‘How far was access to Swedish iron ore a sine qua non for the continuance of the armaments programme?’
3.	These basic questions indicate the main problems. Karlbom's answers to them are not wholly convincing because of some weaknesses in his approach.

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Jörg-Johannes Jäger

Jörg-Johannes Jäger, Dipl.-Volkswirt (Freie Universität Berlin), 1964, Research Fellow at the Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Freien Universität Berlin. Mr. Jäger has studied in the U.S.A. at Columbia University, N.Y., and has worked at World War II Records Division in Alexandria, Va, He is at present working on a thesis under the work title ‘Die Auslandsabhangigkeit Deutschlands von den metallischen Rohstoffen zur Eisen- und Stahlerzeugung im zweiten Weltkrieg’.