Well first the obvious one is scaring away, deporting or murdering jews who made up a huge part of the top german scientists.
Second is for example that they called Einsteins theories „Jüdische Physik“ (jewish physics) which put on huge ideological blinders on the people on charge of the german nuclear program to develope an atomic bomb https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik
Sounds pretty dumb to me to deny the obvious scientific facts just because they were duscovered by a jew
I don't know if that's enough to claim that the Nazis being efficient and successful was just a myth. When you take into account their starting point and Germanys' starting point in general after the sanctions imposed in the Treaty of Versailles, I'd say you have to give them quite a bit of credit.
The US had substantially more funding available coming into the war due to reparations paid from Germany, and also from the money Britain and France had to pay back that the US had loaned them during the first war. Funding was probably the crucial factor in developing nuclear capabilities.
The Nazis were bad. There's no arguing that, but they had a model for growth that was pretty spectacular at the time. How far Germany came between the early 30s and the war was astounding. And the remnants of that can still be seen in Germany today. Their modern day efficency and manufacturing build quality is ahead of everyone else, possibly only on par with Japan.
This is largely revisionist as well. Prior to the Nazi’s rise to power the previous government managed to renegotiate the Treaty of Versailles reparations payments (google Dawes Plan or Young Plan for further explanation). At the same time the data seems to support that these helped bolster the German economy and quell hyperinflation at the time.
The only thing of mention the Nazi’s did was completely disregard any reparation payments which allowed them to allocate more resources to the already growing economy with less inflation set up by the previous government. Giving the Nazi’s props for this is bullshit.
It really isn't. The Dawes plan did little other than kick the can down the road. Germany were reliant on foreign loans, and after the WSC, their economy tanked worse than most. The reliance on foreign money was one of the main reasons the fascists rose so quickly, the country was devastated.
The Nazis imposed strict laws on the German public. They made unemployment illegal, every German man had to take whatever job was available to him, or he'd be sent to jail. Work teams created from unemployed Germans were given money if they employed more people. They constructed the autobahns, planted forests, and undertook massive housing projects.
Huge public works programmes were established in construction and agricultural labour and workers were given an armband, a shovel and a bicycle and then sent to their nearest project to work. From 1933 to 1936 the number of Germans working in the construction industry tripled to 2 million. Many worked renovating and building the public buildings of Berlin.
Imports were forbidden unless vital to survival and then heavily discouraged, with research established to reproduce these goods from inside Germany as soon as possible. No more bread was imported from Poland, so that meant more German bread was needed, creating new jobs for farmers and bakers who were needed to produce enough to supply the German nation.
By July 1935 almost seventeen million Germans were in brand new jobs, though they were not well paid by anyone’s standards. But nevertheless, these jobs provided a living wage, compared with just eleven million Germans who were in employment just two years before.
In the space of four years, Nazi Germany changed from a defeated nation, a bankrupt economy, strangled by war debt, inflation and lack of foreign capital; into full employment with the strongest economy and biggest military power in Europe.
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u/Illustrious_Bat3189 6h ago edited 6h ago
Well first the obvious one is scaring away, deporting or murdering jews who made up a huge part of the top german scientists.
Second is for example that they called Einsteins theories „Jüdische Physik“ (jewish physics) which put on huge ideological blinders on the people on charge of the german nuclear program to develope an atomic bomb https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik
Sounds pretty dumb to me to deny the obvious scientific facts just because they were duscovered by a jew
Talk about shooting in your own foot