Bernd
10/31/2026 (Sat) 12:47
No.55659
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10/31/2026 (Sat) 12:47
No.55659
del
>>55658
Just finishing up the first chapter. My progress is quite slow (I read other stuff in parallel).
The Introduction is quite enlightening in some ways. He talks about the two ways that the Nazi economy is usually presented. And I'll present it to you in my own way.
All the researchers base all their assumptions that Nazi Germany is evil, and they feel compelled by this bias to give their narration. The first group writes that Germany was turbo-rearming to destroy and take over the world. The other group noticed that despite the bombings during WWII the real armament was done during this time and in the interwar period and the early WWII not so much. They explain this that the Nazis were incompetent, and only after Speer started to rationalize then they were able to produce.
So the two views are: aggressive brute vs incompetent brute. These are the classic way of writing about the economy of the Reich. This really mirrors how they write about Russia currently. Or rather writing about Russia gets the inspiration from the Nazi narrations.
Compared to this Owery takes a third road, which sounds more like the calculating brute. Basically in the first period the Nazis created the basis of the mass production of armaments by doing big projects to build the capacity to produce later (and the war came earlier than Nazis expected), and they finished up other armament projects. All this started before the Nazis got into power they were just smart enough to cement their power with the fruits.
Just finishing up the first chapter. My progress is quite slow (I read other stuff in parallel).
The Introduction is quite enlightening in some ways. He talks about the two ways that the Nazi economy is usually presented. And I'll present it to you in my own way.
All the researchers base all their assumptions that Nazi Germany is evil, and they feel compelled by this bias to give their narration. The first group writes that Germany was turbo-rearming to destroy and take over the world. The other group noticed that despite the bombings during WWII the real armament was done during this time and in the interwar period and the early WWII not so much. They explain this that the Nazis were incompetent, and only after Speer started to rationalize then they were able to produce.
So the two views are: aggressive brute vs incompetent brute. These are the classic way of writing about the economy of the Reich. This really mirrors how they write about Russia currently. Or rather writing about Russia gets the inspiration from the Nazi narrations.
Compared to this Owery takes a third road, which sounds more like the calculating brute. Basically in the first period the Nazis created the basis of the mass production of armaments by doing big projects to build the capacity to produce later (and the war came earlier than Nazis expected), and they finished up other armament projects. All this started before the Nazis got into power they were just smart enough to cement their power with the fruits.