The Wages of Destruction: Difference between revisions

* [[Bad Boss]]: '''Hitler'''. He was prone to making demands on industry for quotas that at times ''[[Holy Shit Quotient|''exceeded the global capacity of the entire world]]'' and would not take no for an answer. Those who insisted on saying no risked everything from their careers to their personal safety, especially in the later years of the Nazi regime.

* [[Bait and Switch]]: As Tooze explains, a common myth was the Nazis wanted to sponsor job creation programs for workers. The reality was that such had been considered and discredited under the Weimar regime as well as the Nazis. When they finally were enacted, their true purpose was to jump-start their military industry, which was sold to outside observers as an attempt to employ more labor than was unemployed.

{{quote|''The natural area for settlement by the German people is the territory to the east of the Reich’s boundaries up to the Urals, bordered in the south by the Caucasus, Caspian Sea, Black Sea and the watershed which divides the Mediterranean basin from the Baltic and the North Sea. We will settle this space, according to the law that a superior people always has the right to conquer and to own the land of an inferior people.''}}

:* Hitler had a moment of this as well - while he generally avoided making concrete comments on the state of the war, in 1942, while discussing the need for coking coal for the steel industry with Paul Pleiger, he was uncharacteristically direct and to the point: