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The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

Adam Tooze · 2007

Recommended by 2 people on the record.

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Gwern loved it
A fascinating account of the economic transformation of Germany under the Nazis

on gwern.net · 13 Oct 2022

Cosma Rohilla Shalizi liked it affiliate
This is immensely detailed, immensely readable, and immensely self-assured. It's also so deep into intricate controversies among economic, military and political historians that I feel quite unable to judge it. I will say that I thought I appreciated how much more backwards the European economies were than America in the first half of the 20th century, but even so much of this was eye-opening.

on bactra.org · 30 Jun 2020

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It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.