@aktarian
"housing was worse etc."
Well, not initially but the situation changed day by day, city by city, if you know what I mean.
"While true that they had money they had little to spend it on"
It is also true that the Nazis used the natural German disposition to save their money (and milked the accounts on the saving-banks for the war-effort, see likewise the "5 Mark per week for the KdF-Car"-scheme). But, on the other hand, Germany did not cut back as drastically on consumer goods as e.g. Great Britain. The limited economical strain of the "Blitzkrieg"-campaigns in 1939/40 very much favoured the German governments decision to delay a total war economy as long
as possible (until it was too late, one could argue).
"The requsition from "undesirables" (I take it you mean aryzation) profited very few people, those who already had money and took over Jewish competition, those near people with power who obtained those bussineses and high-ups of state and party who had dibs on such property."
Yes and no. Whereas few people got rich through aryanization, a lot more people profitted indirectly.
Again, I have to refer to Götz Aly who showed how the system of unfair exchange rates, the re-distribution of the possessions of European Jews and the continued rise of the welfare state during the war made possible by a general deficit spending in the belief that the defeated will pay for everything meant that quite a lot of Germans could at least had a little benefit from these policies.
@shimbo
"the lack of female participation in the German workforce is a myth as before the war female participation was much higher in Germany than in the UK or USA"
Upon increased research I have to concede that this is the case and that the period of pronounced measures to push women out of the workforce is restricted to the first years after 1933. The different economical situation in the late 30s already made such measures increasingly senseless and led to different
policies.
@Sol Zagato
"German citizens, at least the ones not in the camps, weren't starving until... well, it had to have been sometime in '44 at least."
Actually, the NS government was able to delay the disruption of food supply until the collapse of the Reich (not counting the Germans running from the Red Army). Even when they could only hold on to little more than Germany itself, they finally let the Dutch starve in the winter of '44/'45.
The German post-war hunger-experience dates from the very bad situation in 1946/47.
@malinutile
A cut back from the deficit-spending to reasonable levels (we are talking about a government where the budget was kept secret...) wouldn't have killed the German industry - the German industry even thrived during the most parts of the inflation of 1920-23. As today, it was a well-functioning and competitive economy and could have been able to export enough to pay for its needs.
The situation of the Reich's finances are a different thing. I think, we have to differentiate there. Also, while the mentionend requisitons were evil, there scope was not decisive, but the manipulaion of the way the Reich payed its expenses were far more grave and could hardly have been resolved without a major economical crisis - something Hitler feared more than war (OK, he was shivering with anticipation regarding war, but still).