>>719017019 (OP)
Because the whole deal was "pristine on the outside, rotten on the inside"
I.e. people really do not know how TRULY retarded the Nazi economy was. Maybe even dumber than Stalin's command economy.
It could only maintain itself by virtue of waging war, conquering neighboring nations and having a third of Europe's population be enslaved. Had the war ended even in their favor their economy would have collapsed soon after simply because it was always unsustainable.
Example: it was illegal for stocks to go down. If you bought stocks for one price and then sold them for less... then congratulations, you are a criminal now. Stocks are only allowed to go up, nowhere else!
The entire economy was basically handcrafted for a small elite of party loyal industry magnates to work in their favor and in no one else's.
Another example: Nazis cut "unemployment" in half by... making it illegal for most women to work and replace them with less capable men. And since working for women was illegal now they also didn't count as unemployed. Mind you men didn't actually earn more, often they earned less so now the families had to get by with only half of the income... but hey *on paper* unemployment was now less than half of what it was prior. They often had to work now far longer hours to at least earn enough to survive off of it. Often 14 hours or longer.
And that's really Nazi Germany in a nutshell: everything was made to look good on paper when in reality it was worse than ever before for the actual population. To keep it from collapsing, they HAD to plunder their own population first (jews, democrats, non-Nazi industrials and business owners, etc) then other nations for all their wealth. It was a complete kleptocracy.
