Tobacco, Arms and Politics : Greece and Germany from World Crisis to World War, 1929-1941 Book

	Introduction	11
Pt. I	Depression, Reorganization and Counterstrategies 1929-1933
	Greece
	National Unification and Political Instability	21
	Integration of Refugees	21
	Agriculture	26
	Export Production of Tobacco and Currant	27
	Industry	28
	Germany
	The Depression and the Development of Germany's Trade Policy	31
	Cartels and Know-How	34
	Grossraumwirtschaft	35
	Greece and Germany
	Greek-German Relations until the 1920s	39
	Greek-German Trade in the Years of the Crisis 1929-1933	40
	Greece's International Political and Economic Position	41
	Greece's Financial Position	43
	The Position of Foreign Capital in the Greek economy	45
	Greece's Financial Assets	47
	The Impact of the Depression on Greek Foreign Trade	49
	The Development of Greek Export	50
	Clearing, Cartelization and Know-How	54
Pt. II	Recovery, Rearmament and Trade in Arms 1934-1937
	Greece
	The Resurgent National Schism, Political Crisis and the Establishment of the Metaxas Dictatorship	59
	The Metaxas Dictatorship	62
	Rearmament	64
	Defence Expenditure	67
	The Army	68
	The Air Force	72
	The Navy	76
	The Powder and Cartridge Company	78
	Germany
	The Neuer Plan	83
	Rearmament and the Four Year Plan	85
	"Export-steigerung durch Einschaltung in die Industrialisierung der Welt"	86
	Raw materials and Currency	87
	Goring	91
	Goring, Germany and Italy	96
	Greece and Germany
	Increase in Greek-German Trade	102
	American Reactions	103
	British Reactions	104
	Greece, Italy and Germany	107
	German Political Pressure to Reorganize Greek Imports	110
	A Private Greek-German Clearing	112
	The National Bank of Greece, Lobbyism and the Growth of the Import from Germany	114
	Reorganization of Imports	114
	Metaxas and Germany	118
	Ideological Common Features and Differences	120
	Metaxas' Assumption of Power and Greek-German Trade	124
	Greek Industrialization and Grossraumwirtschaft	126
	German Rearmament and Greek Exports to Germany	130
	Arms Trade I: Greek-German Negotiations
	Rearmament and Import of German Arms	133
	The Abyssinian Crisis and Forced Greek Rearmament	135
	The Return of the King and Arms Negotiations with Germany	138
	The Tobacco Industry, the Clearing Problem and the Arms Trade	142
	Metaxas's Assumption of Power and the Breakthrough in Greek-German Arms Negotiations	145
	Hard Currency as a Condition for the Arms Trade	151
	The Expansion of the Powder and Cartridge Company and Increasing
	Dependence on German Technology and Know-How	156
	Consequences for International Competition: French Influence is Weakened	158
	Arms Trade II: Greek Export of Arms
	Greece and the Trade in Arms	161
	Greek Export of Arms to Spain	162
	Germany and the Powder and Cartridge Company's Deliveries of Arms to the Republicans	166
	Greek Export of Arms to the Middle East	172
	Greek-German Cooperation in Arms Exports to the Middle East	174
	Bodosakis's Political Position and Contacts in Greece	177
	Bodosakis and Metaxas	180
Pt. III	Recession and War: 1938-1941
	Greece
	Metaxas, the King and Relations to Germany	185
	Germany
	Recession, Centralization and Transition to an Aggressive Ideological Foreign Policy	193
	The Munich Agreement, Hitler, Goring and Ribbentrop	195
	The New German Policy and South-Eastern Europe	196
	New German Trade Agreements with South-Eastern Europe	199
	Growing German-Italian and German-Soviet Competition in South-Eastern Europe	200
	Germany, Italy and the Attack on Greece	203
	Germany and the Greek-Italian War	206
	Informal Negotiations with Greece	208
	Greece and Germany
	Changes within German Policy and the Growing Conflict	211
	British Countermoves in Greece	214
	The American Reaction and the Strengthening of Greek-American Trade Connections	221
	The Advance of the Axis Powers and Changes in Greece's Security Policy	222
	Extended Cooperation with Turkey and Efforts to Ally with Britain	222
	Greek Neutrality and Germany	225
	Italian Advances in the Balkans and Greek Security Policy	227
	The First Six Months of the War. Benevolent Greek Neutrality toward Britain and France	229
	Germany as Protector? Greece, Germany and Italy from 9 April 1940	230
	British Control in the Mediterranean obstructs Greek-German trade	236
	Increasing German Control over Continental Europe Strengthens German Demands on Greece	238
	Arms Trade
	Continued Greek Dependence on Germany	241
	German Attempts to assume Control of the Powder and Cartridge Company	242
	Politicization of Armaments Deliveries	243
	The Powder and Cartridge Company and Cooperation with Britain	246
	British Rejection of Trade and Cooperation with the Powder and Cartridge Company	246
	Change in British Attitude after the Outbreak of War	249
	A Weakened British Position and the Advance of Heavy Demands by Greece	250
	German Reactions to Greek Sales of Arms to Britain	252
	Summary and Conclusion	255
	Notes	265
	Bibliography	317
	Note on Sources	329
	Index	333