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Eh almost none of WW1 was fought in German soil so they came out of WW1 with most of their economic capacity intact minus several million young men.

• kaesar14 3y ago
  And World War 2 saw a complete leveling of most of the country…
  • ericd 3y ago
    But then massive investment by the US.
    • kaesar14 3y ago
      Sure but parent comment is blowing off a lot of factors working against Germany’s spectacular recovery lol. “Several million young dead men” is a bit of an understatement too
      • fragmede 3y ago
        but, owing to cultural changes, it turns out that women can also perform the work necessary for an economy to function.
        • kaesar14 3y ago
          Losing millions of your own population isn’t something that can be brushed off.
        • ericd 3y ago
          It’s not like those women were doing nothing before, so something else gets deprioritized.