I often here a lot of people state the Third Reich was unsustainable

>>2546863
Unsustainable war-wise? Or unsustainable peacetime-wise?

>>2546869
Peacetime is what I'm more interested in. I know it lacked sustainability warwise.

Hitler's economic policy was basically 'dude just privatize everything lmao'

he basically invented neoliberalism

>>2546874
>'dude just privatize everything lmao'

So he was a capitalist? What was particularly unsustainable in that?

>>2546863
https://www.amazon.com/Wages-Destruction-Making-Breaking-Economy-ebook/dp/B008DR6YXO

>>2546863

Do you think the Third Reich would have made iPods or videogames?

I cant imagine Germans having fun like that.

>>2546863

Germany's rearmament program alone pretty much undid their economy with its deficit spending.

There was also a significant drop in living/work standards just prior to the outbreak of war. The conditions for workers on the Reichsautobahn were already concentration camp-tier by 1938, and only got worse once the shooting started.

>>2546882
Mostly in the way he was spending far more than the economy was creating, and the new jobs created by the economy were primarily service industry.
Same issue the US is having now, lots of new jobs, but they're service. They don't create wealth, they just redistribute it.
The wealth the Nazis did create was not applicable to the private sector by and large because so much of the budget was going into the military.
Yes, those tanks and planes and rifles do have value, but they have a very specific value unless someone is willing to buy those tanks and planes and rifles from you.

He kept the economy artificially afloat with price fixing. Although Germany's GDP grew by 300%, real wages only grew 33% on average. From this we can see that the economy was inflated to an extreme degree.

Lots of stuff got made with lots of money that didn't actually exist. And when you're playing hardball with the world nobody wants to lend you any money.

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>>2546863
He propped up the entire economy by turning it into a military/industrial complex and it created countless jobs, which is all fine and dandy if you're at constant war, but if you're not, eventually tanks are gonna be worthless and your economy is gonna collapse. Germany would've been bankrupt by 1950(probably a lot sooner).
Of course being at constant war is only useful if you win.

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>>2546904

>implying the Third Reich would've ever survived long enough for microprocessors or that they would have ever been possible at all without technological advancements made by the ALLIES when they were building the atomic bomb

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>>2546913
>The conditions for workers on the Reichsautobahn were already concentration camp-tier by 1938, and only got worse once the shooting started.
Source out of interest?

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>>2546925

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsautobahn#Planning_and_construction

>inb4 Wikipedia

Oh shut up, it's got plenty of citations

>>2546947
thanks mate

>>2546920
>tanks are gonna be worthless

not if you fucking sell them to people who are actually at war.

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>>2546920

>not financing proxy wars during peacetime years and providing material support to competing factions as an excuse to keep production up

How is it Americans and Russians are the only ones who've figured out how to do this?

>>2546958
And how do you think that's gonna be sustainable? Wars don't last forever. Eventually there's not going to be any demand for tanks.

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>>2546966

>tfw no alternate timeline where the Nazis implement the Madagascar Plan and instigate a 70 year-long race war between the Jews and the locals for $$$

>>2546958
Like who?
Who's going to be buying thousands of German tanks?
Its probably doubtful the USSR invades West since Eastern Europe was generally ultra-wary about the Soviets doing that and Stalin was cautious and concerned about a grand capitalist alliance forming to destroy him.
China? It'll be blockaded by Japan, too far away, too poor.
Japan? Too far away, and they'd prefer to build up their industry to build their own.
Who else is going to buy thousands of German tanks, if the Germans don't bring the world to the brink of war? Nobody else wanted to fight a war after WW1 in the relevant regions of the world, and nobody else was rich enough to buy enough.

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>>2546989

>>2546967
>Wars don't last forever
No, but new ones start up all the time.

>>2546998
>China? It'll be blockaded by Japan, too far away, too poor.
But China DID buy a bunch of German equipment during the war, but before Germany allied with Japan.

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>>2547390

This isn't the place anon

And the American economy isn't?

>>2546863
>tfw no StG-44 equipped Wehrmacht

Saved, /pol/ actually made something cool for once.

>>2547466
Give me hard numbers then, because

Many of these institutes were headed by German-returned Chinese engineers. In 1935 and 1936, China ordered a total of 315,000 of the M35 Stahlhelm, and also large numbers of Gewehr 88, 98 rifles and the C96 Broomhandle Mauser. China also imported other military hardware, such as a small number of Henschel, Junkers[clarification needed], Heinkel[clarification needed] and Messerschmitt[clarification needed] aircraft, some of them to be assembled in China, and Rheinmetall and Krupp howitzers, anti-tank and mountain guns, such as the PaK 37mm, as well as AFVs such as the Panzer I.[citation needed]

Isn't remotely equivalent to buying thousands of tanks.

>>2546919

>services aren't wealth

>tfw no janitor to fix broken toilet

>tfw now living third world standard

>>2546863
There are like books written on it.

>>2546958
Germany had barely any tanks for itself, let alone enough to sell.

Hitler wanted ultimately to establish a modern State built on the model of ancient Sparta and use the Slavs Eastern Europeans the way Sparta used the Helots.........

To add on to this, how reliant was Germany on Soviet trade before and during the first few years of the war?