(June 15, 2016 at 10:03 pm)dom.donald Wrote: Hitler did quite a bit to build the German infrastructure , create jobs, strengthen the economy etc. Thats not revisionist. Claiming he didn't want a war IS.
Actually Hitler did a lot less for the German economic recovery than one would think. For example the Autobahn programme was instituted in 1931, and Hitler's only contribution was to ensure that the road network was reworked to military needs, thus lessening the economic impact of the roads. Another example, the major infrastructure projects were staffed by underpaid and underfed labourers, who often had little by way of building skills. So unlike the US who introduced similar infrastructure projects, there was little by way of an economic impact. And he ended up sacking Schacht, the author of Nazi economic policy which actually worked, in 27 because Schacht told Hitler to his face that fuelling armaments as Hitler wanted would thrash the economy (which was true, the main drivers of the events in 1938 and 1939 {the three appropriations of foreign lands} which lead to the war was Germany's lack of foreign currency and raw materials, the economy was months from falling apart on the eve of tbe Anschluss and got closer to the cliff from there).
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