Abstract
After the occupation of France, the Reich Economics Ministry planned to seize French colonial resources on a large scale. Following the Wiesbaden negotiations, the defeated enemy should be forced to deliver goods and material in order to supply the German war economy. This article examines the examples of West African plant oils and Indochinese natural rubber. As a consequence of principle-agent conflicts, the German occupiers could not reach their aims by far. By way of state-owned import companies, the French government succeeded in controlling the exportations to Germany. Thus, the contribution of colonial raw materials to the German war effort remained marginal.
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