02-01-2016, 12:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-01-2016, 12:24 PM by BenSkywalker.)
Quote:He was appointed economic minister by Hitler for a good reason, part of it being his track record in eliminating the 1923 hyperinflation. Of course, he was just a tool to Hitler, and Hitler fired him in the late 1930s for protesting the war economy as unsustainable.
No argument there. He was actually opposed to several of the policies that led to economic prosperity for the poor, in general he was not a fan of Keynesian economic policy.
Quote:If the middle class was already devastated, why didn't the Nazis become hugely successful before the Great Depression?
If you recall Hitler had gotten out of jail and was more interested in re-asserting his dominance over the party then winning elections in 1928. Also, the middle class wasn't nearly as large as the working poor in Germany- without the support of the poorest people he never would have achieved dominance.
Quote:Epic fail. The real reason was that he couldn't ship them to Siberia to freeze to death, since the Soviet Union refused to keel over. Even before that became an issue, the Einsatzgruppen were out mass shooting the Russian Jews.
Generalplan Ost was the plan to relocate Slavic people after they had been conquered- they were the ones being sent to Siberia. Paul de Lagarde was the one pushing for shipping the German national Jews to Madagascar
