Comments by "Nattygsbord" (@nattygsbord) on "Operation Barbarossa \u0026 Loot Force One" video.

  1. The problem was that Germany was producing luxury cars before world war 1, and the car manufacturers was happy with producing small numbers of cars to rich customers instead of massproducing things for the masses. And the German ministry of war was also of the opinion that it wanted to get its trucks from many companies instead of being dependent upon on just a few... and all this made the German automotive industry very ineffective during world war 1, because the lack of standardization when every company built their own vehicles and types of trucks. So the allies could easily outproduce Germany in tanks and trucks... when their industries was used to Fordism, taylorism and massproduction. And the German industry never solved this ineffectivity problem. Economic crisis can be painful, but they can also be necessary in order to create a strong economy in the long term. Structural rationalization means that demand for products falls in a market, and competition among companies gets harder about the smaller number of customers that are left. And some companies doesn't survive this struggle of life and death.... so some companies go bankrupth and their workers lose their jobs and they have to sell all their machines and tools to pay off their debts, or they get bought up by a competitor at a low price. So when the economic crisis have killed off all companies with uneffective, uncompetiative ways of production... then only the strong companies with good leadership, management are left. And when then garden has been cleansed of all weed, then there is plenty of room for expansion. And companies could grow stronger when many competitors are gone, and they can increase sales and hire more workers. Germany was hard hit by the hyperinflation and the Great depression, but it got out of very quickly when Hitler turned the economy around with his defence spending. People got their jobs back and companies produced stuff for the military at full capacity of what their factories could bear. Germany never had as a painful structural rationalization as USA and many other countries, so she never had mass unemployment like USA had during the 1930s, but on the other hand did the German car producers remain ineffective and old fashioned... while American car producers increased their effectivity. The Great Depression had helped the nazis. Without it people would have been angry on Hitler for increased taxes to pay for his military spending, but now people could not see how much the military took from their pockets... since the standard of living had fallen so much in Germany during the economic crisis that people had forgotten what was normal... so when Hitler gave people jobs it felt like a great improvement of standard of living that people atleast could support themselves with their own job and have something to eat. And the quick mobilization for war that America did after 1941 would also not have been possible without the great Depression that started in 1929 and lasted to 1941. Millions of unemployed Americans was hungry and queing at the soup kitchens and large factories was closed, and with the war those millions either got to wear a military uniform, or going to a factory making the uniforms. And since millions were unemployed and factories was unused, the American government didn't have to force people to move to a job in the defence industry and neighter did they have to steal any factories that was used for civilian production when there was so many closed down factories that could be used. So massmobilization was going through very smoothly, and people didn't mind taxes and war rationing as much when they were used to starvation during the economic crash, and people wasn't so unhappy about paying more taxes, instead they were happy to just get a job.
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