Expansionist reassurances

[George K]

[Jolly]

Thought exercise...What if Hitler had stopped there? What would have happened?

[taiwan_girl]

[Mik]

Kind of depends on if he still pursued the Final Solution. There might have been an international effort to get rid of him then.

[Copper]

If he had taken a few quiet years to perfect his rockets and other weapons, he might have lasted longer and done more damage. If he had put president Roosevelt on the payroll that might have helped.

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in Expansionist reassurances:

Thought exercise...What if Hitler had stopped there? What would have happened?

Wouldn't his economy have imploded? He needed a war because the main thing keeping the economy going and unemployment down was re-arming the military.

[Jolly]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Expansionist reassurances:

@Jolly said in Expansionist reassurances:

Thought exercise...What if Hitler had stopped there? What would have happened?

Wouldn't his economy have imploded? He needed a war because the main thing keeping the economy going and unemployment down was re-arming the military.

Implosion? Maybe.

The German economy as funded by the government was mostly civil projects through the first couple of years during Hitler's time in office. By about 1935, military spending had ticked up considerable, but I don't think you can say the Germans were on a pure war economy, until the beginning of 1939.

[Renauda]

You are mistaken, Jolly.

Hitler was first and foremost a warlord, national leader a distant second. It was all about how he understood the national will to dominate in its mythical racial supremacy and solely under his leadership.

His legacy deserves no slack to cut. He would go to war with everyone.

[bachophile]

Apropos the book I’m reading now, (see what are you reading thread, about Rudolph Diesel ) Germany was on a war economy from the time of Bismarck, the Franco Prussian war and the unification of Germany in the 19th century