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To: Ilaine who wrote (5263)	6/24/2001 10:50:54 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

I'd love to know whether Hitler's policies - which, by the way, worked quite well in the short run - were in any way informed by these theories. That is a VERY good question. I've wonder the same thing from time to time. National Socialism, although aiming at centralized control over the economy, heavily depended upon the complicity and support of the German financiers and industrialists. But there was a significant difference between Hitler's formed of deficit spending, and those adopted in the West. Hitler focused his deficit spending on those sectors that would enhance German military power, which would then be used to conquer and pillage neighboring economies. The autobahn was built as a means of facilitating rapid movement of military forces throughout the Reich, similar to the Roman road concept. And I just did a query and was surprised to find that Hitler was not the leader who initiated the Autobahn program, the first section of which was completed in 1932 before he came to power, although he expanded it for his military goals: german-way.com Interesting.. Anyway... Hitler certainly was almost forced to lauch a war of conquest in order to find a way to pay for the debts that Germany was incurring. However, the Nazis had originally planned for the war to begin in 1945, but Britain declaring war over the invasion of Poland forced the issue. Hawk