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The economic strengths of the Great Powers involved in the First World War (1913)

Source: Kennedy, Paul: Aufstieg und Fall der Großen Mächte. Ökonomischer Wandel und militärischer Konflikt 1500–2000, Frankfurt am Main 1989, 392 and 411

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Derek Weber

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    High mark and decline of the economic war effort

    Despite all the problems, the production of armaments in the Austro-Hungarian Empire reached its peak in 1916 and 1917. The decline in production in the last year of the war was all the more dramatic. At the same time, social disputes intensified.