Wages of Destruction

[percyprune]

I am carefully picking my way through Adam Tooze's majestic Wages of Destruction, his history of the German economy in the inter-war and war years. It is, in every respect, an outstanding read. In these days of the Hitler Channel, convincing people that they know everything imaginable about the Nazis, here comes a fresh and important work from a

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[symphorophilia]

I read "Wages of Destruction" as "Wangs of Destruction", and I'm not going back.

[percyprune]

It certainly brings a new meaning to the term 'wage inflation'.

[winterbadger]

That actually sounds quite interesting, and I am guessing that I have a similar relationship with economics to yours. I was just reading a bit about Herr Hilter for a writing commission, and the quick dash through the Nazi restructuring of the German economy that I took doign that made me wonder about how it had really happened.