The 'Green' Economy of the Third Reich

Accuracy in Media ^ | 10/28/2010 | Mark Musser

[Olympiad Fisherman]

The Nazis, of course, needed money to fund their national regeneration program. With a very fragile German economy to draw from, they were thus forced to make some important concessions to big business and industry that many Nazis considered a betrayal of their values. Moreover, the Nazi economy was flying by the seat of its pants throughout the 1930’s and 40’s. Nazi hatred for international Jewish capitalism placed them on a suicidal path of national autarky, economic isolation and destruction. Weighed down with war reparations, a weak economy, and lacking natural resources that had to be imported from abroad, the Nazi economy became an ersatz economy. Synthetic substitutes produced locally at home had to be found to fill in the gaping holes. That the chemical giant IG Farben was at the heart of the Nazi economy should come as no surprise. Producing synthetics became vital to make up for their import restrictions. Their Aryan biology/ecology thus created a government controlled ‘local only’ economy that was doomed to fail ...

[Nepeta]

The problem with "environmentalism", whether preached by the Nazis or the heirs of the 1960s is that is a religion, and not concerned with facts or science.

If I try to tell a true believer of age 20 or so that the skies and waters are incredibly cleaner than they were 40 years ago, and that I remember how filthy they were, they don't believe me. They tell me I am lying. They must believe that things are worse than ever, and that any year now, we'll all croak, because that is part of their doomsday faith.

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[wendy1946]

Pulling Germany out of the British/International money system was the one thing the fricking nazis ever did right. Germany was a basket case in 32 and became the world’s strongest economy in just about five years DESPITE being blackballed and ostracized.

[Psalm 144]

It’s almost as if the left doesn’t like solving real problems . . .

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Once leftist utopians get to the gas chambers, gulags and killing fields, they seem to arrive at their comfort zone. Eventually they are then broken down by an outside factor or implode.

Too late for the bones that were once someone’s vital, productive and beloved friends and family.

[Psalm 144]

Thanks for the ping. Had begun wondering whether and how the Nazi’s nature fetish had affected their politics. Clearly quite a bit.

[Olympiad Fisherman]

This a complete myth. The German Economy was never a strong economy, and was always on the verge of one crisis after another. For the definitive and best book out there on the Nazi economy, you must read Adam Toozes’s “The Wages of Destruction.” No book even comes close to grappling with the Nazi Economy that this book does - http://www.amazon.com/Wages-Destruction-Making-Breaking-Economy/dp/0713995661.

[marsh2]

I know that ESA has decimated our local economy - plunging families into poverty, drugs and abuse. I KNOW it wasn’t worth it. After all the regulations and shut downs, the spotted wol and coho salmon are not one step closer to recovery. In fact, last year there were only a handful of coho that returned to the Shasta River weir and all were male. With the morratorium on forest management, spotted owl old growth forests are burning to the ground in my area. (250,000 acres in 2008 alone.)

[November 2010]

I’ll check out the website. Thanks!

[1010RD]

Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll read it next.

I’d like to see the ESA changed to the Endangered Genus Act.

[Fred Hayek]

The Nazi economy was a centrally planned economy, and thus a house of cards.

[GSP.FAN]