with growth beneftis
more tha nthe US
and UK
in the 30s
SAME IDEA THAT AMERICANS ADOPTED AFTER WWII
he spent all the money conquering central european shitholes
THE GREAT DEPRESSION WAS PROBABLY A DELAYED RESPONSE TO WWI
pre ww2
he started ww2 when he did as he was broke
and needed the polish and french means of production
INTERESTING THEORY
to take over the lebensraum
HOW WELL DID HE INTEGRATE FRENCH PRODUCTION INTO GERMAN INDUSTRY?
he just took resources
like when he went into romania
that was the point of tkaing the caucauses
but he didn't think about it
how to get the oil
GERMANY ALWAYS NEEDED RESOURCES
THEY HAD COAL BUT WERE SHORT ON OIL
HENCE NORTH AFRICA
as he had maxed out mediterranean shipping with romanian and bulgarian oil fields
he had no way of getting it
if he took saudi arabia
no pipeline
certain british counterattacks
not that he had anyway of getting there on land
or sea
he didn't even have enough stuff to get to the urals
as eastern europe is mud and dirt roads
and blitzkrieg does not work as there is nothing but shtetls and mud and woods
BLITZKRIEG WORKS BEST AGAINST INDUSTRIAL TARGETS THAT CAN BE SEIZED
EASTERN EUROPE WAS MOSTLY PRE-INDUSTRIAL
HOWEVER
HE WOULD HAVE HAD TRAINS
AND COULD HAVE INCREASED SHIPPING
BUT THIS WOULD HAVE CONFLICTED WITH SOME OTHER AIMS
I THINK HIS ERRORS IN THIS AREA ARE OVERSTATED
WHILE HIS MILITARY/LOGISTICAL ERRORS ARE UNDERSTATED
THE SOCIALIST BASIS OF HIS SOCIETY, HOWEVER,
WAS THE ELEMENT OF FAILURE: IT BECAME IDEOLOGICAL INSTEAD OF PRAGMATIC.
