The Wages of Destruction (Adam Tooze) - The Nazi Economy

The Wages of Destruction (Adam Tooze) - The Nazi Economy Part of Reanalysed Week on WW2TV More Third Reich content on WW2TV    • Third Reich and German Forces   If you liked this video please consider leaving us a thank you donation. To the right of the up and down thumbs and share button is the heart shaped Thanks button - it helps us to keep on producing content. Professor Adam Tooze is a British historian who is a Professor at Columbia University and Director of the European Institute. From a start in modern German history with a special focus on the history of economics and economic history his interests have widened to take in a range of themes in political, intellectual and military history, across a canvas stretching from Europe across the Atlantic. https://adamtooze.com/ In today's show we look at Germany's wartime economy as explored by Adam's in his award winning book The Wages of Destruction. Our talking points will include the fact that after the Germans had failed to defeat Great Britain in 1940, the economic logic of the war drove them to an invasion of the Soviet Union. Hitler was constrained do so in 1941 to obtain the natural resources necessary to challenge two economic superpowers: the United States and the British Empire. That sealed the fate of the Third Reich because it was resource constraints that made victory against the Soviet Union impossible, especially when it received supplies from the Americans and the British to supplement the resources that remained under Soviet control. We will also talk about Strategic bombing, Albert Speer and also German's pre-WWII rearmament. The Rise of the Third Reich - Katja Hoyer    • The Rise of the Third Reich - The Nazis Se...   Buy the book: USA https://bookshop.org/a/21029/97801431... UK https://uk.bookshop.org/a/5843/978014... Other WW2TV Shows that you may enjoy: SS Leadership in Hitler's War - Dr Philip Blood    • SS Leadership in Hitler's War - Philip W B...   The Third Reich 's Elite Schools - The Nazi Napolas    • The Third Reich 's Elite Schools - The Naz...   Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder in Nazi Germany    • Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol and Mass Murder...   Burying the Dead from the Battle of the Bulge    • Burying the Dead from the Battle of the Bulge   You can become a YouTube Member and support us here    / @ww2tv   You can become a Patron here   / ww2tv   Please click subscribe for updates Social Media links -   / ww2tv     / ww2tv     / ww2tv   WW2TV Bookshop - where you can purchase copies of books featured in my YouTube shows. Any book listed here comes with the personal recommendation of Paul Woodadge, the host of WW2TV. For full disclosure, if you do buy a book through a link from this page WW2TV will earn a commission. UK - https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/WW2TV USA - https://bookshop.org/shop/WW2TV