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A comment on George Orwell’s 1940 Review of Mein Kampf. Parent comment

Re:George Orwell’s 1940 Review of Mein Kampf by theptip on Sunday July 17, 2022 @03:52PM (#32130548)
The recent biography of Keynes (“The Price of Peace” by Carter) spends a lot of time discussing similar theories put forth at the time; Keynes was very critical of the Treaty of Versailles as he considered it an inevitability that crushing the German economy post-WW1 would produce a nationalist demagogue.

Indeed, the treatise by Keynes after which the biography was named provided a technical argument for that thesis.

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Re:George Orwell’s 1940 Review of Mein Kampf by everybodyknows on Sunday July 17, 2022 @07:12PM (#32132500)
In The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) Keynes puts the blame squarely on the French delegation as led by Clemenceau:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economic_Consequences_of...

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Re:George Orwell’s 1940 Review of Mein Kampf by Starlevel001 on Sunday July 17, 2022 @07:22PM (#32132565)
> crushing the German economy post-WW1

It was so crushed it was the strongest economic power in Europe by 1923. Truly a crippling burden.

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Re:George Orwell’s 1940 Review of Mein Kampf by theptip on Monday July 18, 2022 @12:21PM (#32140065)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_interwar_economy

> By 1932, close to six million people were unemployed. The situation in Germany became so precarious that Hitler and the Nazi party started to gain the support of the people.[11]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Twenties

> The United States was the only country to come out of World War I without debt or reparations to pay. Germany owed a huge sum and had to take a loan from the US just to survive. No one had any hint that there would be a stock market crash with worldwide repercussions and that this crash would ruin Germany and set the stage for Hitler to come into power.

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