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Nazi billionaires, capitalist ethics, and other notable contradictions

The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth

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The Irony of the Industrial Revolution

The irony was that the allies in the allied forces in Western Germany, they let the industrialists keep everything. And then of course, with the emergence of the Korean War and the Cold War flaring up further, you see all American factories producing arms. Suddenly West Germany is thrust as the key Western industrialized nation to produce consumer goods for the US market and for the rest of the world.

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