Monday, March 7, 2016
Hitler and the Economy
This post is pretty much a summary of one of the sections of my research paper. Hitler was actually quite beneficial to Germany in terms of it's economy. Sure, Hitler had a lot going on in his head, and most of it was probably extremely unacceptable, BUT Hitler works wonders for Germany economy. Before World War Two, Germany was in a depression. Failing economy, and war debts from the first world war were plaguing the economy, and it wasn't doing any better than America was at this time. When Hitler came in though, he changed that completely. He, similar to Roosevelt, put in a ton of national worker projects highways and such, along with several other reforms. No one really wants to read too in depth, so I'll just leave it at that, but ya he really got Germany's economy back on track. So, while he created some of the worst atrocities the world has ever seen, he did do one thing good for Germany.
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ReplyDeleteYeah Hitler definitely did some good in helped the German economy during the depression and uniting them as a country. However, if Hitler came into power during their economic downfall would it be possible for the same thing to have happened during the U.S. Great Depression? Would the United States potentially also fall to Hitler?
ReplyDeleteIt is true that Hitler boosted the German economy out of the depression through militarization, but in the long run did he really help Germany at all? Even though at Nazi Germany's height it was debatably the strongest nation on earth, at the end of the war Germany was worse off than it was after WWI as it was divided and occupied by foreign powers and forever crippled militarily.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Chris the most- I think Hitler definitely gave their economy a boost but with the occupation of Germany after the war, the German people really were not being led by a German. And that must suck. Imagine if the United States had an Italian president, someone who had been born and raised in a totally different country and didn't understand the needs of the American people? SO I agree with Chris, Hitler led to Germany's downfall.
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