[firebrand39]

Kudos to this very, very good article. Let me add a couple of facets.

- Walter Euckens 'ordoliberalism' which laid the foundation for the postwar German 'economic miracle' was a direct response to the chaos and ineptitude of Hitler's bureaucracy. I believe Eucken worked within Hitlers economic planning bureaucracy.

- Albert Speer, Hitler's 'Minister of Armaments', removed the tangle of agencies and ministries by centralizing power over economic planning and by giving factories 'self responsiblity' allowing the german war economy to reach peak output in 1944. (see wikipedia)

- The production of the V2 'wunderwaffe' actually cost more lives of forced labor (see Speer) than its deployment.

- After the end of the war, german productivity leapfroged with the introduction of american machinery, like producing a Beatle car got faster by the order of ten times (I believe, if readers have precises figures, please share them).

What is the moral of all this? Ethics and hard-nosed productivity are really not separate at all.