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* [[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.
* [[Dying Like Animals]]: Hans Frank, when discussing allocation of labor in Germany involving Poles and Jews, invoked this sentiment as to why he did not care about their ability to thrive past what Germany needed them for:
{{quote|'''''I am not interested in the Jews. Whether or not they get any fodder to eat [fuettern] is the last thing I’m concerned about . . .'''''
'''''The second category is made up of the Poles [perhaps as many as 10 million people] in so far as I can make use of them. I shall feed these Poles with what is left over and what we can spare. Otherwise, I will tell the Poles to look after themselves . . . I am only interested in the Poles in so far as I see in them a reservoir of labour, but not to the extent that I feel it is a governmental responsibility to give them a guarantee that they will get a specific amount to eat. We are not talking of rations for Poles but only of the possibilities of feeding them.'''''}}
* [[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.'''''}}
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