The Wages of Destruction: Difference between revisions

* [[Deal with the Devil]]: The alliance between the Nazis and big business happened this way. Hitler essentially offered them absolute domestic control of their industries they had been dreaming about since the early 1920s, and they had to support his regime in return. They took this deal, with the full knowledge it came with the rider of establishing a huge slush fund for the Nazis to use however they saw fit and that the Nazis held the whip hand in making sure they could not back out of the deal later.

* [[Deconstruction]]: Tooze deconstructs a lot of commonly held myths about the German economy, including Albert Speer's supposed "economic miracle" and the difference between what Germany produced during the Nazi period versus what it actually needed to produce and how the difference was much more profound than earlier histories indicated, often by a severe degree.

* [[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.