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* [[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.'''''}}
* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: The Hunger Plan. This was a plan by the Reich Ministry for Food and Wehrmacht economists to deliberately starve over 30 million Soviets to death in order to free up food for German use, spelled out in very exact terms and with that name on the plan itself in 1941.
* [[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.
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