[beth]

You had me at "and panties."

[mnhloot]

I just purchased The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze. It's an economic analysis of the Third Reich. I haven't read it yet, but its main thesis is that strategic decisions of the Third Reich was motivated primarily by it's relative economic weakness. Hitler and co. saw that Germany and Europe would be eclipsed by the U.S., and that the quest for Lebensraum was a last ditch effort to secure European dominance on the world stage.

[CoallyPax]

Originally posted by Ecthy
Does he argue why Hitler went for the USSR? Does he cite Hitler arguing about that economic aspect? I haven't had the chance to read it yet, so I don't know exactly what he says, but the reviews that I've read say that he does.

[statistica]

Originally posted by Solomwi
You had me at "and panties." I have a confession- I loathe the word 'panties'.

Makes my skin crawl, rather like the word 'slacks'.

As in- 'she wore crimplene slacks over nylon panties'.

A ghastly Seventies' nightmare....

[86GlSqSK]

Sign me up to the slacks-haters. And crimplene. And panties.

Sorry, this was supposed to be about heavy serious stuff. :-|