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Old March 6th, 2008 #1
Alex Linder
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Default National Socialist Economic Policy

[originally posted by Danger Man]

Unless you have access to a major university library you'll have to ask your local librarian to arrange an inter-library loan to get hold of this. It's difficult to find but it is out there.

The jew Silverman is surprisingly honest in his admiration for the effectiveness of the public works programs during that era in Germany. I suspect he wanted to write the same old predictable boiler-plate dogma about the government supported rearmament programs being responsible for the economic recovery but even he admits that was a minor factor.

This is well worth reading especially if you have a background in economics. I had a couple required classes but I'm not student of the subject. Technical theory is discussed and explored but it's kept brief and simplified so the book is relatively to follow.






Hitler's Economy

Nazi Work Creation Programs, 1933-1936

Dan P. Silverman

When Hitler assumed the German chancellorship in January 1933, 34 percent of Germany's work force was unemployed. By 1936, before Hitler's rearmament program took hold of the economy, most of the jobless had disappeared from official unemployment statistics. How did the Nazis put Germany back to work? Was the recovery genuine? If so, how and why was it so much more successful than that of other industrialized nations? Hitler's Economy addresses these questions and contributes to our understanding of the internal dynamics and power structure of the Nazi regime in the early years of the Third Reich.

Dan Silverman focuses on Nazi direct work creation programs, utilizing rich archival sources to trace the development and implementation of these programs at the regional and local level. He rigorously evaluates the validity of Nazi labor market statistics and reassesses the relative importance of road construction, housing, land reclamation, and resettlement in Germany's economic recovery, while providing new insights into how these projects were financed. He illuminates the connection between work creation and Nazi race, agriculture, and resettlement policies. Capping his work is a comparative analysis of economic recovery during the 1930s in Germany, Britain, and the United States.

Silverman concludes that the recovery in Germany between 1933 and 1936 was real, not simply the product of statistical trickery and the stimulus of rearmament, and that Nazi work creation programs played a significant role. However, he argues, it was ultimately the workers themselves, toiling under inhumane conditions in labor camps, who paid the price for this recovery. Nazi propaganda glorifying the "dignity of work" masked the brutal reality of Hitler's "economic miracle."

(Harvard University Press just had to stick those last two lines in there. In true ivy league semitically correct fashion they want to be sure no one gets the idea that the Harvard establishment is praising devil man Adolf Hitler and the industriousness of the forever-tainted, as Harvard considers them, German People.)
 
 

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