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Interesting Links for 14-02-2017

Feb 14, 2017 12:00

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danieldwilliam February 14 2017, 12:47:09 UTC

I don't think the Nazis failure to bring women in to the workforce was a mistake as such. There was something deeply screwed up about their economic ideology which meant that they thought they prefered to allocate female labour to domestic tasks rather than the war effort and also chose to murder many, many people who could have been used as forced labour. The chose to prefer an economy that reflected their ideology rather than a war winning one. I'm not sure that's a mistake exactly. I think if they had been offered a choice between women working in factories and inevitably demanding more economic and social freedom and losing the war they'd have gone for losing the war.

The Wages of Sin by Toombs is good on Nazi economics.

andrewducker February 14 2017, 13:00:10 UTC

I'm sure that some of the high command will have felt that way.

danieldwilliam February 14 2017, 14:00:23 UTC

Aye, I'm specifically not thinking of the general German population.

Everytime I've ever gone anywhere near Nazi "thinking" on anything I know about I end up being almost frantic with baffled rage at the willful dumbness. Those guys were weird. Dunning-Krueger in fancy hats.

They'd have been totally in to panzer-storks. They tried to resurrect the Aurochs.

brixtonbrood February 14 2017, 14:51:54 UTC

These are the people who refused to use "Jewish Science" when trying to build atomic weapons aren't they?

danieldwilliam February 14 2017, 14:58:00 UTC

I believe they are the same people, yes.

Although I hope that the not using "Jewish science" was more about denying that Jewish people had been involved in the research rather than an attempt to make a nuclear bomb without using research done by Jewish people.

Why I hope, in the face of experience and their own rhetoric, that Nazis aren't stupid is probably a matter for me and my shrink.

anef February 14 2017, 23:09:12 UTC

I failed to find your recommended book on Amazon but came across The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze instead.

danieldwilliam February 14 2017, 23:19:09 UTC

Apologies. That's the book.

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