The primary "degree of industry" plan, signed by the Allies on March 29, 1946, had said that German heavy trade was to be lowered to 50% of its 1938 ranges via the destruction of 1,500 listed manufacturing plants. The unemployment stage thereafter fell dramatically, as war business and recruitment placed a massive demand on manpower. Mobilization and armament prompted a brief-lived but dramatic economic shock at first of the battle: unemployment spiked from 2.7% in July 1914 to 22.7% in Septemb...