a source familiar with the matter on Nostr: I'm no great fan of Jewish culture or religion, so I do sympathize to some degree ...
I'm no great fan of Jewish culture or religion, so I do sympathize to some degree with the desire to remove them from positions of political control over a host population.
But no, I don't think the NSDAP economic program was successful. The hourly wages paid to German workers remained at Great Depression low levels all through the 30s and until after the end of the war. Of course as the German economy moved towards autarky and then into war, there was heavy rationing. To give one example: all throughout Europe there was a shortage of petrol which various localities addressed by converting vehicles to run on ammonia, wood gas, or other fuels (or simply doing without).
A free economy is generally quite poor at focusing great resources on a single goal. Many people each choosing their own priorities are unlikely to all agree on what those priorities ought to be. A centralized political apparatus, on the other hand, can focus great resources on a few priorities. What is not seen, however, are the vast array of alternative priorities that are neglected. Nobody takes a photograph of the rubble of a factory that was never built.
But no, I don't think the NSDAP economic program was successful. The hourly wages paid to German workers remained at Great Depression low levels all through the 30s and until after the end of the war. Of course as the German economy moved towards autarky and then into war, there was heavy rationing. To give one example: all throughout Europe there was a shortage of petrol which various localities addressed by converting vehicles to run on ammonia, wood gas, or other fuels (or simply doing without).
A free economy is generally quite poor at focusing great resources on a single goal. Many people each choosing their own priorities are unlikely to all agree on what those priorities ought to be. A centralized political apparatus, on the other hand, can focus great resources on a few priorities. What is not seen, however, are the vast array of alternative priorities that are neglected. Nobody takes a photograph of the rubble of a factory that was never built.