Many
Americans, from the Glenview State
Bank of Chicago to author Ellen Brown
assume that the Nazi economic regime was successful, but closer examination
tells a tale of rationing, shortages, and starvation. Learning why their
economy failed can teach us how to avoid the same fate.
Background
The myth
endures that after Hitler inherited a country ravaged by the Great Depression
in 1933, his aggressive policies turned the nation around and created an
economic powerhouse. But the truth, as Professor Evans of the University of
Cambridge argues in his seminal history The Third Reich Trilogy,is
something far different.[1]
Evans, a
Marxist sympathetic to Keynes and state intervention, nonetheless tells a story
of rationing, shortages, and misery in the Third Reich. The Reich Food Estate,
the state-controlled corporation responsible for agricultural production,
regularly failed to feed its people. Agricultural output rarely surpassed 1913
levels, in spite of 20 years of technological advancement. Demand outstripped
supply by 30 percent in basic foodstuffs like pork, fruit, and fats. That meant
that for every ten German workers who stood in line to buy meat from the
state-owned supply depots, three went home hungry.[2].....To Read More....
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