This has been occasionally approached before with modest results. Assuming the retention of a republican system for Germany, how much economic growth might there have been by 1945-50 for Germany? How much lost ground in this can be recovered?
Depends what happens in 1933 and on without the Nazis in charge. Germany doesn't get Austria or Czech territory/money and relies on more of a market based solution to the Great Depression. They were being screwed by economic policies of the US, so would really suffer if they didn't have Schacht getting a position as Economics Minister and had of the Reichsbank to make barter deals and default on US loans. Even the Hoover Moratorium wasn't enough and without the Nazis promoting Keynesian stimulus the German economy likely flounders through the 1930s until better, more free trade type policies are pushed by other nations. I'm not sure the republican system in Germany could survive without some sort of Keynesian stimulus which even the SPD I think wasn't offering. Even the cyclic upswing that started in late 1932 would have been relatively minor even if the economy improved. Once the debt payments restarted Germany would jump right back in the toilette.This has been occasionally approached before with modest results. Assuming the retention of a republican system for Germany, how much economic growth might there have been by 1945-50 for Germany? How much lost ground in this can be recovered?
That would also be without the Marshall Plan as well.
The ToV would have continued to successfully keep Germany a second to third rate economic and military power for at least a generation or two, but after that who knows.
Depends are French willingful discuss about the treaty on some point and how much Germany is pushing against some terms. Even in OTL Hitler systemically violated several articlas of TOV and anybody didn't anything. So there is good changes that someone strong German chancellor is able begin negotiations with French.
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It's doable of course, but there were no obvious choices from the 1930 German political field for doing it.
Strongest in Europe by far, only behind the US and fat superior to BritainOn the industrial side, how well positioned was Germany in electrical technology in the 1920s? Was there a possibility of dominating electrical technology and global production during the 1940s or 50s?
Strongest in Europe by far, only behind the US and fat superior to Britain