On economic front how can we really distinguish between Nazi economy v. Authoritarian capitalism of the modern China & pre-democratic South Korea/Taiwan? Perhaps that Nazi Germany’s distinctive lack of any constitutional order & structural lawlessness allows more executive free reign than modern CCP, which Xi still had to operate under some party-legal structure; maybe South American junta are more akin then in their shared lack of constitutional order?
Adam Tooze's *Wages of Destruction* is the seminal work on Third Reich economics policies, eminently researched, and Tooze's own fluency in German allowed him access to valuable archival material in the original language. An excellent specialist companion to the many monographs published on the political origins of Naziism, such as those of Richard Evans, Ian Kershaw, et al.
Of course...just adding my own appreciation of the work, as my own lay interests in Hitler, Naziism, and the rise and fall of the Third Reich were motivated by the published works of well-known (largely British) historians, but a deep dive into Nazi economics policies was provided by *Wages of Destruction*, which was the point I was trying to make, but apparently failed.
On economic front how can we really distinguish between Nazi economy v. Authoritarian capitalism of the modern China & pre-democratic South Korea/Taiwan? Perhaps that Nazi Germany’s distinctive lack of any constitutional order & structural lawlessness allows more executive free reign than modern CCP, which Xi still had to operate under some party-legal structure; maybe South American junta are more akin then in their shared lack of constitutional order?
It's a very good quesiton which I cant answer off the top of my head
Adam Tooze's *Wages of Destruction* is the seminal work on Third Reich economics policies, eminently researched, and Tooze's own fluency in German allowed him access to valuable archival material in the original language. An excellent specialist companion to the many monographs published on the political origins of Naziism, such as those of Richard Evans, Ian Kershaw, et al.
Did you read to the end or see my footnotes?
Of course...just adding my own appreciation of the work, as my own lay interests in Hitler, Naziism, and the rise and fall of the Third Reich were motivated by the published works of well-known (largely British) historians, but a deep dive into Nazi economics policies was provided by *Wages of Destruction*, which was the point I was trying to make, but apparently failed.