How the Nazis planned a Fourth Reich ...in the EU

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5 points·selki··4 comments

...I would believe this if it came from a more reputable source. Maybe a newspaper that isn't a tabloid? Check out the sidebar, it's full of celebrity gossip and other trashy articles.

The article is something like "Illuminatus" or "Da Vinci" Code for Nazi-Fans. Many interesting and known facts without connection get woven together to support a rather weak story. Even the author doesn't really believe it. The whole truth here is somehow like a sentence which i have read repeatedly in the last weeks on this board:

Correlation is not causation.

(I tried to write some arguments to support my conclusions. But i deleted them. It would have become too long. Go out, read some books on this topic. The facts are much more complicated and fascinating than this dumb conspiracy theory.)

This part I found particularly interesting: (if true)

"War had been extraordinarily profitable for the German economy. By 1948 - despite six years of conflict, Allied bombing and post-war reparations payments - the capital stock of assets such as equipment and buildings was larger than in 1936, thanks mainly to the armaments boom."

I had always thought it obvious that war was a disaster for the german economy. Many german cities were burnt to the ground. I wonder what the source is on this.

yeah, I really doubt it's true. Reparations were paid mainly in machinery and plants and there was a serious attempt at deindustrializing Germany.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_reparations#Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgenthau_Plan

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