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Look at the German economy before WW2, and after WW2. Then you will get your answer. But like the parent poster said, some people can only think black and whit

• throwanem 9y ago
  Talk of thinking in black and white! So when you say "after WW2", do you mean the shattered, occupied Germany of early 1945, or the revitalized Germany of later years, after Europe and the US - and, to a lesser but still real extent, the Soviet Union - rebuilt it? Yes, Hitler and his mad, failed quest for power ruined Germany. I don't know if maybe you've never seen them, but the Bundesarchiv has some pictures which seem pretty starkly clear on that score. And then more or less everyone else in the Northern Hemisphere provided the resources and a lot of the labor to unruin Germany, because everyone still remembered what happened the last time they'd had to deal with a ruined postwar Germany, and after what had come out of it that time, no one wanted to find out what would come out of it this one.
• tremon 9y ago
  To add to what my sibling says: when you say "before WW2", do you mean the shattered, financially devastated Germany under the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 and the global Depression of 1929, or the industrialized welfare state of 1880-1910? The brokenness of Germany was not Hitler's doing; rather, its brokenness is what gave Hitler his platform.
• yesenadam 9y ago
  "Don't be snarky." Go somewhere else if you want to talk with that tone, thanks.