The Germans Learned in World War II

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i've lived in germany, and it seemed to me then they have plenty of farm land. So why, then, is lebens raum portrayed as such a cant motive for germany wanting to expand? Well, i know, but, but great britain, in the beginning of the twentieth century, was fifty per cent dependent on imported food. In hitler's paranoid world views, it's also, of course, where the world jewish conspiracy brings its influence and its power to bear on on modern germany. It's atout dependence that has to be broken....

Adam Tooze is best known for his highly-regarded books on the economic history of Nazi Germany, the remaking of the global economic and political order starting in World War I, and his account of how the economic effects of the 2008 financial crisis rippled across the globe for a decade to follow. Recently, he’s become an influential voice on Twitter documenting the pandemic-induced strain on the world’s financial systems.

Adam joined Tyler to discuss the historically unusual decision to have a high-cost lockdown during a pandemic, why he believes in a swoosh-shaped recovery, portents of financial crises in China and the West, which emerging economies are currently most at risk, what Keynes got wrong about the Treaty of Versailles, why the Weimar Republic failed, whether Hitler was a Keynesian, the political and economic prospects of various EU members, his trick to writing a lot, how Twitter encourages him to read more, what he taught executives at BP, his advice for visiting Germany, and more.

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