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From one piece Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IVa: The Fires of Industry 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The aggressor powers' aims in World War II were fundamentally economic: it was a war for resources.Their words
the strategic ends of the aggressor nations were fundamentally rooted in economic objectives. To put it in the classic formulation, World War II was a war for resources.
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the rather resounding verdict of the war (and the subsequent Cold War period) was that these assumptions - that centralized state direction was efficient, that autarky was a viable economic strategy, that it was better to dominate than to trade, that highly militarized economies could durably sustain national power - were false.
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From one piece Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IIIb: The Opposite of Love 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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a strategy which did not work then and has never worked since in any war ever, despite repeated attempts.
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The regular German military, the Wehrmacht, was fully involved and complicit in Nazi war crimes alongside the SSTheir words
the regular German military, the Wehrmacht was fully involved and complicit in Nazi war crimes, alongside the SS and the rest of the Nazi regime.
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Axis atrocities were not collateral damage but deliberate military policy bound up with Axis strategyTheir words
The atrocities could not be seperated from Axis strategy: they were the ways, means and ends, by, with and for which the Axis fought.
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From one piece Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IIIa: Focusing on Politics 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Democracies had real strengths in adaptability and economic mobilization in the Second World War.Their words
Historically, the United Kingdom, a fraction of the size of Hitler's continental European empire after 1940, nevertheless outproduced it in key categories like aircraft.
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Hearts of Iron IV's simplified politics serve to present an essentially authoritarian vision of politics in which the opinion of the people matters essentially not at all, where state power can easily and effortlessly shape outcomes
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