Comments by "John Burns" (@johnburns4017) on "The REAL Reason why Hitler HAD to start WW2" video.

  1. The inflation came about through irresponsible money printing by private banks. Printing money is fine, we do it today (HS2 will be paid for by printed money) but it has to create economic growth - usually by major public works. But public works schemes are slow to realise the growth. But they can employ a lot of people. Small public works schemes tend to return growth quicker - like extending London's underground, etc.
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  2. Jason, Tooze answers a lot..... The Wages of Destruction - The Making and Breaking of the NAZI Economy by Prof Adam Tooze - 2006 Tooze: Preface xxiiv: "America should provide the pivot for our understanding of the Third Reich. In seeking to explain the urgency of Hitler's aggression, historians have underestimated his acute awareness of the threat posed to Germany, along with the rest of the European powers, by the emergence of the USA as the global superpower." On the basis of contemporary economic trends. Hitler predicted already in the 1920s that the European powers had only a few more years to organize themselves against this inevitability." "Germany would carve out its own imperial hinterland; by one last great land grab in the East it would create the self-sufficient basis both for domestic affluence and the platform necessary to prevail in the coming superpower competition with the United States." "In Hitler's mind, the threat posed to the Third Reich by the United States was not just that of conventional superpower rivalry. The threat was existential and bound up with Hitler's abiding fear of the world Jewish conspiracy, manifested in the shape of 'Wall street Jewry' and the 'Jewish media' of the United States. It was this fantastical interpretation of the real balance of power that gave Hitler's decision-making its volatile, risk-taking quality. Germany could not simply settle down to become an affluent satellite of the United States, as had seemed to be the destiny of the Weimar Republic in the 1920s, because this would result in enslavement to the world Jewish conspiracy, and ultimately race death."
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  3. Jason, Tooze again emphasises this.. Germany in the 1930s was largely an agricultural country, with agriculture equivalent to Romania and Ireland, so dire was the inefficiency of German agriculture - with 56% engaged in agriculture. In the 1930s, although it had some leading edge companies, Germany was a medium sized workshop economy dependent on imported food. If Germany had concentrated on making agriculture and fishing industrial using the best of German brains, it would have no need to import food and fed itself. Then it could concentrate on getting into Fordism.
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  4. Jason, Tooze again... Page 431: "the strongest arguments for rushing to conquer the Soviet Union in 1941 were precisely the growing shortage of grain and the need to knock Britain out of the war before it could pose a serious air threat." "Meanwhile, the rest of the German military-industrialised complex began to gird itself for the aerial confrontation with Britain and America." Germany rushed to invade the Soviet Union, with an ill-equipped army with no reserves in anticipation of a massive air war with Britain and the USA, hoping they could win the Soviet war within weeks. The coming air war: Roosevelt promised 50,000 plane per year production in May 1940, of which a substantial amount would be in the RAF. Germany could not compete with the level of aircraft at the UKs disposal. Whether the planes had US and UK pilots or just UK pilots they were coming Germany's way. And the only way they could really get at each other was by air. Germany feared mass bombing, which came - the bomber in the late 1930s was perceived as a war winning weapon. The Germans knew the lead time for aircraft was 18 months from order to delivery. That meant in late 1941/early 1942, these planes would be starting to come in service in great numbers. Germany needed the resources of the east to compete. Tooze... "Britain inherited France's orders in the United States. Combined with the contracts Britain itself had placed since the start of the war, London by the end of June 1940 was expecting delivery from the United States of no less than 10,800 aircraft and 13,000 aero-engines over the next eighteen months. This was in addition to Britain's own production of 15,000 military aircraft. At the same time, the British Ministry of Aircraft Production was negotiating with the Americans to order many thousands more. By way of comparison, total German aircraft production in 1940 came to only 10,826 aircraft and in 1941 it expanded to only 12,000 Tooze goes on that German war production was shifting from the army to the Luftwaffe even as the troops were rolling towards the USSR on 21 June 1941. Once Hitler had the USSR in a lightening gamble, he could then concentrate on the masses of aircraft about to attack him from the west.
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  6. The USSR could not supply enough to Germany, as it never had enough to begin with. Germany was always short of everything, especially oil.
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