Comments by "Nattygsbord" (@nattygsbord) on "How did Germany Get so Strong after Losing WW1? | Animated History" video.

I would argue that South Korea beats all of them.
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Well the rich business elite do not like your idea. They rather want a system with unemployed people get small benefits. If everyone had a job, then there would be a shortage of labor. And then would workers wages go up. And that would mean less money over as profits for the business owners. I do however agree with parts of your idea. There should be a job guarantee programme where every person is guaranteed to get a job at a minimum wage if they cannot find a better job. Then people learn new skills and do not get stuck in long-term unemployment and lose their self-respect and self-esteem. But instead can they feel pride in owning their own wage by serving society instead of feeling like a burden to others. And wages will not be pushed up and causing wage inflation, since the government sector is not competing with the private sector for the workers and thereby pushing up wages. The wages are at minimum wage level, and most people will move to a better job in the private sector as soon as economic growth picks up and the corona crisis is over.
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Have you never heard about bowing and curtsy?
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Hyperinflations happen to countries in war and communist regimes and not to modern industrialized countries. The common definition of inflation is "too much money is chasing too few goods". In a normal healthy economy will money printing not cause higher prices because we pump out more and more stuff from factories and thereby get more and more goods - which puts a downward pressure on prices. Governments also takes out money from circulation in the economy - which makes less money chase those goods and causing inflation.
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Hitler also outmaneuvered the creator of his socialist party and took it over. And in 1934 he killed the leftwing flank of the party as he back-stabbed Röhm and Strasser.
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"Shitty research, dude" How many books have you read on this topic? I bet it is zero. "How can you say Germans invested their whole economy towards war in the 30's when in fact it didn't fully mobilised until the last year of the war" Both Mark Harrison and Adam Tooze says that Germany started its economic mobilization for war already in 1934. When the last steps in cutting rationing and mobilizing for total war in 1943, had Germany already been in a semi-mobilization for wars for many years before then. Much of the old views on Speers economic miracle has been re-visioned. A part of the explanation to the increased production numbers of tanks can be found in the idea of cutting production in spare parts and only focusing on building new tanks - which turned out to be a bad decision for the German army which could not fix all thanks that needed repairs. Another reason why German war production increased in 1942/43 and afterwards was because the building programme of new factories started in 1938 finally began to pay off. And when those new industrial plants could be put into use, then Germany could dramatically increase its output in weapons production. So as you see did Nazi-Germany always plan for war. But in 1936-38 was much investments done into building new factories, while after 1943 was all efforts only spent into building more weapons instead. One thing remained true for the period 1934-45 however, and that was that military production always came before civilian production.
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Germany had the best railway system in the world. But Germany was also a country where Germans was much poorer than Americans and could therefore not afford to buy their own cars. So Germany had no T-Ford, so instead they used the railways. They used railways for everything.. transporting yourself to work, transporting people to work, and transporting people to camps.
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I never really did. In 1924 came the hyperinflation. In 1929 did the great depression start in USA and soon spread to Europe and wrecked the weak German economy that still not had recovered from the war and the hyperinflation. And while Hitler did much investments and military spending that cut unemployment, did he do very little to improve standards of living.
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@wolfy8006 The goal was to prepare the country in the case it got to war with western powers again. But Hitlers overall goal was to conquer Poland and Russia and settle it after he had gotten rid of all slavs living there.
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It seems like people started to fact check things quite recently. And this makes me wonder, how many other myths do people believe in? how many myths do I myself believe in?
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The country was not going to be stuck with a hyperinflation and the great depression forever, so even if Hitler had been killed before he came to power would Germany's economy have recovered. It would have probably fared better if Germany had used their resources for improving standard of living instead of military spending. A more moderate leader would not get Germany into conflict with other countries and thus suffering from trade embargos. And instead of chasing away jewish scientists could the country have benefited from their service. It is true that military spending stimulated the economy, but you could on the other hand let the government stimulate an economy by other things, like building electric power plants, constructing roads, spending more money on research, hospitals, doctors and nurses. The only thing I do thing was a good thing the nazis did, happened during the war. And that was the building of new factories and the large training programmes of hundreds of thousands of German men and women who turned into skilled industrial workers during the war. So when the war was over did Germany have big factories and lots of skilled workers to create its post-war economic boom by building Volkswagens instead of tanks. I doubt that a peace time democratic government would have been able to force people to cut their standard of living so much, that the country would be able to make these huge investments in the manufacturing industry that Germany did. The Communists also tried to do this trick to help their stagnating economies in Eastern Europe after the 1970's. And that became very unpopular and contributed to the fall of the Berlin wall.
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Company A pays Company B. Company B pays Company C. Company C pays Company A. No more German money needs to be printed so German companies can pay each other Instead they use their own secret currency to pay each other, so that the allies cannot see that inflation is going up in Germany because they are spending money like crazy on their military.
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It have never been a super power since WW2
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Not really. The large scale killings only began in 1942. Strangely enough did this regime start experimenting with killing people until 1939 when the war begun. And with all secrecy under the war did the nazis try to use the situation to kill people they disliked, and all protests against this could be called enemy propaganda. The final solutions was probably not beneficial for Germany if you look how many experienced workers they killed which could have helped Germany win the war. All doctors, engineers and scientists that were lost. The nazis never cared about the economic gains of doing all this. Getting rid of undesirables was more important to them. But sometimes did economic motives play a minor role. They probably made it more interesting to speed up the murders to solve problems of housing shortages in Germany after many had become homeless after allied bombings of German cities. And stealing clothes from people who had been killed, could be used by the German government to win popularity by the German people as it could give away clothes to people in Hamburg who had lost everything after allied bombers had turned that city into ruins. And collecting coins, jewelry and gold teeths could enrich nazi officials and the gold could be used to pay for foreign imports.
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Just like rightwing parties love to take money from the poor and give to the rich
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France and Belgium wanted some economic compensation for all buildings destroyed. France and Britain had also borrowed money from USA to win the war, so now USA wanted to get its money back - but since they had no money they wanted Germany to pay instead. Then the negotiations started and France started with a super high demand for economic compensation. France really did not hope to get all that money - they just said that they demanded all that money as a negotiation trick. I mean you do not start a wage negotiation with your boss and demand a minimum salary that he is offering, but instead you try to get as much paid as possible. And France got a little bit horrified, when it realized that no other allied power was trying to hold them back and soften their demands for compensation. And the end result became this silly Versaille treaty peace with so much war demands that even British patriots like John Maynard Keynes opposed it because it was too unfair.
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@hooderik8699 "compared to the economic disability and physical disasters the other 3 nations had they have less speed bumps." Bullshit. Korea is the country which had been invaded most in history (more than 1500 times). And South Korea was devastated by World war 2 and its population was enslaved by Japan. Then came the Korean war and harmed the country even more. So by the early 1950's it was one of the poorest countries on the planet - Ghana was twice as rich back then. The country had 3 main exports: fish, tungsten ore, and handcrafted whigs made by collecting human hair. And in just 30 years (if not even less) did South Korea go from being one of the poorest into becoming one of the richest countries on the planet. They outclassed Sweden in Shipbuilding (which were the largest country in shipbuilding). And the Korean state owned steel company POSCO headed by a Korean Army General became the largest steel producer in the world only 6 years after the company was started. And today Korea is known for companies like LG, Hyundai, and Samsung. It makes everything from smartphones, to cars to tanks like K2 black panther. Not bad for a country with 50 million people and no natural resources to out compete rich countries in their own game. USA did have the natural resources to make their own steel. But South Korea didn't so it had to import both coal and iron from far away (because China was Communist back then). So all iron and coal had to be imported from Australia, USA and South America before South Korea could start making its own steel.
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Despite all bombs dropped over Germany did German industrial capacity grow with 15% during the war. Many unemployed Germans had also been put to work in the factories and become skilled workers during the war years. So Germany did have a highly productive workforce and new machinery. People today often talk about idiocy like "the post-industrial society" - which is nonsense, since the industrial sector is just as important today as in the past. The manufacturing industry is the sector where productivity levels are the highest. While productivity gains in agriculture and the service sector is very small at best. And the high improvements in productivity does create a larger economic surplus (aka "profit"). And the higher profits you make, the higher wages can you also afford to pay your workers so they get a high standard of living and can afford to pay much money in taxes so you could have good schools and healthcare.
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The introduced a new type of money backed by gold
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And people have always said that judgement day is near. But people tend to forget all the 2000 years that doomsday prophets have been wrong. Those who think we are living in the 1930's again are looking at history in a superficial way. They use the same line of reasoning as people who say "Hitler was a vegetarian, therefore all vegetarians are nazis" or "Hitler also drank coffee just like you, you nazi!". Trump is Hitler. "Everything with four legs must be a dog".
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antifa thugs or gun crazy tea party activists They were fat losers and men who dreamt childish fantasies about military glory, but they were too young to join WW1 and too old to fight WW2.... so they had to let other generations of german men die wars because of their childish wishes
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Nope.
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AfD are basically just the old CDU (before the CDU turned left under Merkel). In any other country would AfD be seen as a normal Conservative party rather than a nazi party. But since Germany is a insane shithole, are everyone with different opinions than the consensus considered a nazi. This says more about the German people than it does about Germany. I don't even like the AfD, but I can say that they are the only sane people in Germany while the rest of the German population are retards in eyes of the world. Ironically does the normal German loves fascism and censorship in order to fight fascism. But I guess that Germany just cannot help itself from going from one dictatorship to another... the kaiser reich, the 3rd reich, DDR, and now this. Germans simply do not understand the concept of democracy. And nor do they like democracy.
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That is why it needs to be broken up again
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Every jackass can get low unemployment for a short period of time if you just borrow and spend and waste all currency reserves. It is however an unsustainable way to run an economy.
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Unemployment went down thanks to military spending. Military contractors did have a nice time building weapons for the Fuhrer. And people in general was happy to have a job after years of economic hardship. The wages was bad, but so what? After a depression and a hyperinflation were people not so picky like they normally would be, and most people were happy to have any income at all even if it was low. So the economy was not impressive. Every shitty government red, blue, brown, green - can get economic growth by spending money on the credit card and using up all years of saved foreign currency reserves to import things from abroad. But most of us realize that this is not a sustainable model of running an economy in the long run. One day you will run out of dollars and rubles to buy imports. Wasting money on the military does not improve quality of life that much, and it doesn't make investments for the future. I am not against borrowing money for investments, but I am against the idea of borrowing money for pointless luxury consumption. Buying a flat screen TV with borrowed money because you cannot afford it otherwise is a stupid idea. But if you borrowing money to invest in the future so your country will become richer in the long run and get a better economy to pay off old loans easily, then I support the idea. A good government should invest in research, education, infrastructure.harbors, a better energy grid and so on. While tanks and battleships only begin to rust over time and does not improve the long term strenght of a countrys economy.
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It had lots of military tradition from before the Weimar republic to built upon, as they expanded their army. And Germany had secretly been researching tanks and planes even before Hitler took power and also made preparations on how they could enlarge the army in times of war.
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Nope. The economy only collapsed after Russia took the Romanian oil fields which were Germany's most important source of oil, and when allied troops took Lorraine and western Germany which produced most of Germany's iron.
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Merkel do of course in her daddy Adolf's footsteps
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They did not fail to notice it. France was more worried than Britain and wanted to go into Germany and stopping them from breaking the many agreements in the Versaille treaty. But Britain had a half-assed attitude towards Germany, and many Brits sympatized with the Germans and thought that the Versaille treaty had been too harsh. And France felt that it was too weak to act on its own, and such an act would not be much popular with public opinion in France either, since the country had suffered gigantic losses in ww1 and therefore had a strong anti-war movement. And the rise of fascism in France didn't help either. When Hitler occupied the Rhineland in 1936 did the allies also overestimate the strength of Germany so they feared that a war would become very costly if they would punish Germany for such a minor thing. So the allies overestimated the effect of Hitlers rearmament, since the German army was still pretty weak. Germany did what it could to scare people into thinking their army was stronger than it really was. During military parades did troops often march twice down the same street, and stretched out military formations made the on the column of vehicles and men longer, and thus if gave the impression that Germany had more men than it had. The allies had reacted to all this. The French had already built their Maginot line so they were safe. But as an extra insurance did they also build as many panzer divisions as Germany, and they did also have so many tanks over that they could also give the infantry many hundreds of tanks. And the French tanks were not only more, but they were also better than the German ones. And Britain had also started to re-arm, but they were doing it at a slower phase than Germany. But on the other hand did both Britain and France have bigger armies than Germany to begin with. Britain did reintroduce conscription in 1939 (four years after Germany). But that didn't matter if it was little late - the allies still outnumbered Hitler by 2:1 in 1940 and had twice as much tanks and planes. So the allies were hardly any fools. Many French generals had also predicted the route Germany would take during their sweep into western Europe in 1940. So much of the failure of the allies in 1940 had more to do with politics, and better tactics of the German air force and auftragstaktik than it had to do with bad preparations on behalf of the allies. As I said earlier - France did have just as many tank divisions as Germany plus a Maginot line. Had I been a German General in 1939 I would had advised Hitler to not start the war, because Germany lacked oil and rubber for wheels on trucks and tank tracks, and silk for parachutes. And much of the soldiers in the German army divisions only had 2 months of training. Germany would also be outnumbered by the allies and have a weaker navy, and France would have strong prepared defensive positions in the Maginot line. The armaments industry was getting priority over the rest of the German economy, but still it was unable to produce enough tanks to replace all tanks lost in Poland before the invasion of France in may 1940. The German army also relied much on horses, while the British army (BEF) was one of the most motorized armies in the world, while the French army was consider the best army in the world by that time. Even if I like boldness in warfare and know that a weaker force often beats a larger one if it have better leadership and training, I would have felt very uneasy with Hitlers proposal to start a new world war. All the odds were stacked against Germany.
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I guess there a just a few people spamming. And they need to do attention whoring on channels like this because nobody cares to watch their own junk videos.
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He rebuilt his army with the credit card.
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The road building had not come anywhere until the end of the war, and when it finally entered the war, it offered the allies a speedy road into Germany
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"Recovery" is a relative term. When did the American economy recover from the Great Depression? Was it when production was back at pre-crisis levels? Or was it the year when unemployment levels were back up in normal pre-crisis levels again? Or was it after World War II when he stock market had recovered from the crash? Or was it when price-levels had recovered after the deflationary crash that the Great Depression was? So in what year did the American economy recover? - I guess that depends on what perspective you have. Unemployment levels was a problem that the nazis solved. And the country became more self-sufficient - which I consider to be a good thing. But their economy was also filled with many unsolved problems. Their insane military spending created lots of jobs, but it also wasted money. And inefficient companies were able to survive when the government spent money left and right. While in USA had this crisis forced such companies to go bankrupt or being bought up by competitors - and this led to only the best producers surviving the crash. So American companies were therefore much more efficient at producing stuff than German ones when the war started. And Germany became outclassed in production of trucks, tanks, rifles and much everything else. Structural rationalization is never a funny thing to do - but it makes your economy stronger afterwards.
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1. Steal food from farmers in Ukraine so millions starve to death. 2. Export that food to other countries so you get lots of foreign currency 3. Use those dollars to import modern machinery from USA and create an industrial revolution in Russia.
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The hyperinflation in 1923-24 is what people associate this time period with.
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You got the government. And you got the private sector (citizens, corporations, banks, etc). Every government borrows money from the private sector. And there is nothing wrong with that. Every country does that. And if you didn't do that, then you would not have any money in your country - because all money is debt. And without debt you do not have any money. So when your government goes more into debt, then do the private sector get richer. But when the government gets richer, then private sector gets poorer. It is not hard to get why. If the government increases taxes, then the people will become poorer while the government will become richer. And when the government spends more money and going into debt (and thereby getting poorer) then the private sector will get more money, and the economy will be going well, peoples wages goes up, unemployment goes down and everyone is happy. So it doesn't really matter how this happens. As long as the government spends more money than it takes, then private sector will get richer while the government will get poorer. You can do this by increasing welfare spending, wasting more money on the military or cutting taxes or doing everything at once. The government have an unlimited ability to pay for everything it wants to have. Just like you would be able to buy everything you would see in a store if you had your own printing press. The only limitation you would have would be inflation. What we now see here is that Germany did not borrow much money. The German government borrowed money from the German people. But building bombs and then blow them up is perhaps not the best way of creating valueable things to repay all loans.
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For the vikings it is the opposite
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The German army was more than 3 million men strong in 1914. So 800.000 still seem like a small and moderate number.
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