10,161
edits
The Wages of Destruction: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
Line 20:
* [[Divide and Conquer]]: Germany managed to welsh on it's war debt repayment thanks to this trope. When the Nazis fully welshed on the German debt repayment, the fact this left their European and American creditors (who had little leverage on Germany since they too had no money to encourage bilateral debt repayment) high and dry worked against the creditors, since they all needed to work in unison to put pressure on Germany, but their own desperate situations did not encourage them to do so, allowing the Nazi regime to walk away with little consequence and their creditors wound up the biggest losers.
** The Nazi regime achieved a similar use of this trope in seeking South American markets to replace the markets of the United States. It essentially scotched any attempt to cut Germany off at the ankles and the favorable terms encouraged places like Brazil to stiff the US with little consequence. End result was German markets free of a lot of US dependency and the US market position splintered on the Southern American front.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Goering, while he avidly support the persecution of Jews and the seizure of their assets, he was nonetheless incensed at the property damage, because, as he put it:
{{quote|'''''I have had enough of these demonstrations! They don’t harm the Jew, but me, who am the last authority for coordinating the German economy.'''''}}
* [[For Want of a Nail]]: While Tooze is careful to avoid generalizations for the most part, one of his big assertions is that Germany might have never taken Hitler seriously had the Depression not made him look like a prophet.
* [[Greedy Jew]]: Tooze makes perfectly clear if you want to have a starting point to understand the Nazis in term of economics, you must acknowledge they took this trope in absolute seriousness and patterned all their assumptions after it, no matter how true it actually was.
| |||