Curious what those 3 times would be? I am, of course, well aware of the atrocious self-brain drain after '33. Other than that, most scholars would disagree: th

Curious what those 3 times would be? I am, of course, well aware of the atrocious self-brain drain after '33. Other than that, most scholars would disagree: the treatment of Germany after WWI (notably no destruction due to the war, Germany capitulated before the war reached German borders) in Versailles is what made Hitler's rise possible in the first place. Rebuilding (Marshall plan) rather than destroying (Morgenthau plan) made Germany what it is today after WWII. Japan shows that one could have skipped the whole 2nd act in Europe: Japan wasn't destroyed at all, but rebuilt after WWII, and seized to be a threat to the world.