Third Reich: Rise and fall

[VonMessa]

Would Germany's standard of living have improved without Adolf Hitler coming to power?
As today Germany is at the center of Europe with a large educated population and a industrilised ecomomy, it does not require a dictatorship to play a major role in world affairs.

A very provocative question.

The German economy and morale were both in the toilet after WWI.  Relatives of mine have described it to me in terms of a wheelbarrow of Deutsch Marks would have bought you a load of bread and, if you were lucky, a newspaper.

It would be interesting to see how things would have played out. 

[Motherland]

Would Germany's standard of living have improved without Adolf Hitler coming to power?

The question is kind of moot, Germany was going to go down some kind of radical path after what happened to it after WWI.
I think it probably would have been possible, though, just look what happened after WWII.

[-tronski-]

By 1939 Nazi Germany was heavily in debt. Its spending had doubled whilst its earning in real terms had stayed static before 1928.
Unemployment was low because of the massive spending by the Nazi govt with the expansion of the Armed forces, and public works. The nazification of the public sector had also allowed a large number of german men to find work at the expense of women, and newly classed "non germans".

 Tronsky