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Article: Nuance and Nazis
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- The American Spectator
- Article date:
- June 1, 2009
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IT APPEARED IN THE APRIL 1 EDITION, but otherwise there was no reason to think David Leonhardt's New York Times column was a joke. It was, however, a shock;
In the summer of 1933, just as they will do on Thursday, heads of government and their finance ministers met in London to talk about a global economic crisis. They accomplished little and went home to battle the crisis in their own ways.
More than any other country, Germany- Nazi Germany- then set out on a serious stimulus program. The government built up the military, expanded the autobahn, put up stadiums for the 1936 Berlin Olympics and built monuments to the Nazi Party across Munich and Berlin.
The economic benefits of this vast ...