New York Times, CNN, others barred from press briefing

[Pat Mustard]

Actually it wasn't Germany under the nazis never returned to the economic levls of 1928, and for the ordinary Germans levels of prosperity pretty much stayed at Depression levels.

The nazis had fucked the German economy by 1937, at the very latest.

That's not entirely true.  The nazis used the arms build up as one vast and unending stimulus package to restore Germany to full employment.  They did succeed in returning Germany to near full employment by 1938.  So for those Germans who were out of a job during the depression, the standard of living certainly improved under the nazis.

Hitler returning Germany to full enployment is a myth. Even putting aside the fact that there were large numbers of people in concentration camps from 1933 onwards, he reduced Jewish, Roma and African Germans to a state of permanent unemployment, he made it very hard for women to either get or hold jobs outside of working in agriculture (on the family farm) or domestic service (with the number of women taken out of the workforce there were less people employed in 1938 than in 1933).

And the final nail in the coffin was the mass near slave labour press gangs used by the nazi government to pad out employment figures, working millions of men into illhealth and early graves building the autobahns for nothing more than they'd have gotten on the dole.

Mass workfare and padding of numbers does not a full employment economy make.