The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze Summary
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Tooze's economic masterpiece dissects Hitler's doomed war machine with unprecedented archival research. Winning both Longman and Wolfson history prizes, this revisionist bombshell reveals how America's economic might - not Soviet resistance - truly sealed Nazi Germany's fate. David Frum called it "meticulous" for good reason.
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When Economic Anxiety Becomes Apocalypse
What drives a nation to gamble everything on conquest? Between 1933 and 1945, Germany transformed from a depression-ravaged democracy into a war machine that nearly consumed Europe. Most accounts explain this through ideology or madness, but the truth is more unsettling: Hitler's catastrophic decisions emerged from a frighteningly rational assessment of Germany's economic position in a world dominated by American industrial might. This wasn't irrational fury but calculated desperation-a leader who understood his country was falling behind and chose conquest over accommodation. The tragedy wasn't that Hitler misread global economics, but that he read them clearly and drew monstrous conclusions. Understanding this distinction matters because economic anxiety didn't disappear in 1945; it merely changed forms, and the temptation to resolve it through aggression rather than cooperation remains one of history's most dangerous recurring patterns.
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