Segment on the striking, prophetic parallels between the plot of Goethe’s Faust II and the early vicissitudes of the Third Reich –this part was excised from the last chapter of the original manuscript of Conjuring Hitler
Germany
ABSTRACT The Nazi economic recovery, achieved between 1933 and 1938, displayed striking features of brilliant economic overhauling of a capitalist machine that had been plagued by aprolonged crisis. The means employed to effect the recovery appear to follow a Malthusian exercisein the rehabilitation of the function of effective demand: the Nazis, prompted by expediency andnecessity, […]