Thread: Hitler's Greenbacks

A very interesting read, and perhaps good lessons could be learned from it. The only thing that messed things up (IMHO) is the association of certain practices common in banking with people of a certain religion, and this snowballing into the final solution with rail cars going all over Europe with people who in many cases, would not come back and the need, I guess for vengeance or some such, marching into Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland, etc...
A good idea at its core,(the economic solutions, not the other stuff) but the need for a scapegoat was IMHO carried too far and helped fuel the rage against a nation that too many still remembered as being on the "other side" during the previous world war.
Also it's a good example of why brutal treaties such as the one ending WWI are not a good idea. Eventually, unless the enemy nation is completely annihilated, it will again have to be a functioning part of the world. Better it is an ally or at least neutral, than have reason to hate those who defeated it for another generation.
John P.