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The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy

by Adam Tooze

The economic limits behind Nazi Germany’s ambitions

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    The Financial Times praises the book as masterful, painstakingly researched, and erudite.

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The economic limits behind Nazi Germany’s ambitions

Adam Tooze examines the Third Reich through the tension between Hitler’s vision of German power and the constraints of Germany’s resources. The book challenges conventional economic interpretations of the period, connecting the regime’s ambitions in Europe and its competition with the United States to the choices and limitations shaping its economy. It also considers how racial ideology obstructed those ambitions. With economic history as its organizing lens, the study places the Nazi economy within wider political and moral debates about the period.

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  • Readers interested in the economic history of Nazi Germany and the Second World War.
  • Those seeking an analysis of how resources and ideology shaped the Third Reich’s political ambitions.

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Nazi Germany’s economyResource constraints and powerRacial ideologyEconomic interpretations of the Second World War

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Book overview

"Masterful . . . [A] painstakingly researched, astonishingly erudite study...Tooze has added his name to the roll call of top-class scholars of Nazism." --Financial Times

An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam Tooze's controversial book challenges the conventional economic interpretations of that period to explore how Hitler's surprisingly prescient vision--ultimately hindered by Germany's limited resources and his own racial ideology--was to create a German super-state to dominate Europe and compete with what he saw as America's overwhelming power in a soon-to- be globalized world. The Wages of Destruction is a chilling work of originality and tremendous scholarship that set off debate in Germany and will fundamentally change the way in which history views the Second World War.
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