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'''''The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy''''' is a book of historical non-fiction about the economical history of [[Nazi Germany]] by Adam Tooze. Starting after [[World War I]], he traces the economic history of of Germany from the potentially different path the Weimar Republic pursued and then the Nazi government's economic policy until the end of 1945's ignominious end of [[World War II]]. Unlike many other histories, in which economics were subsumed into discussions of broader topics such the politics of the Nazi state, this book remains almost entirely focused on the economic aspects of the Nazi regime, with all other subjects secondary.

 

The book is in some ways a rebuttal of many claims both the Germans and the world believed as to the state of the Nazi economy both before and during the WWII years, with Tooze's analysis striving to separate economic fact from fiction as objectively as possible.

 

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