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{{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.
* [[Fascist but Inefficient]]: This was noted as a recurring issue. Just because Hitler ran a state that gave him nigh absolute power did not translate into making any issues her faced in terms of resource allocation magically disappear. If anything, the biggest weakness of the Nazi regime was that when the economic system had problems, they nigh always had a physical problem that could not wish away by simple ideology. Tooze does, however, concede that nigh absolute power Hitler and his cronies exhibited did give them great latitude for assigning resources at will, but even this was limited by what they had available at the time.
* [[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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