In this interview, Adam Tooze, specialist in German economic history, examines the economy of the Third Reich: was there a Nazi economic policy ? What were the economic reasons for Hitler’s total war against Europe? ? What was the legacy of this experience for the German economy after 1945? ?
Adam Tooze is professor of German history at Yale University. His latest book, recently translated into French – The Wages of Destruction. Formation and ruin of the Nazi economy (Wages of Destruction. The Making and the Breaking of the Nazi EconomyPenguin Books, 2006) – is considered the most accomplished synthesis of the economic history of the Third Reich.