Just wanted to add something about national-socialism since Josh half-jokes about it from time to time. Specifically wanted to say a few things about german national-socialist economy miracle. Or, rather, a fictional "miricale".
Basically, in a few words:
1. It was an inner circle of ultra-rich industrialists like Krupp, granted they all were essentially ordered around by Hitler, but still, but it was a closed club. Krupp, Opel, IG Farben, Messerschmitt AG, Rheinmetall AG, Reichswerke Hermann Goring etc. benefited greately by being the exclusive recepients of government contracts.
2. If someone disagreed, like Heinkel, they were were dealt with and their business overtaken and divided inside the club.
3. Most of the 30s industrial growth was paved by the systematic actions of previous german governments of Weimar.
4. Autobahn and other major employement programms were
partially fictious. Erich Koch probably is the best example- when he was Gauleiter of Prussia he forced 30 000 people, at least in part mental assylums and prison inmates, to pretend to work on the Autobahn to satisfy the statistic.
5. MEFO bills. Better read up on your own, but essentially the industialist fascist club rearment was paid in promices of future payments by the MEFO company which was formally not affiliated with the goverment. All of this was backed by the Reichsbank and headed by Helmar Schacht. They were making tanks out of thin air in hopes that they'll get paid once they conquer other territories.
6. Slave economy. Yes, one can say that it might have been partially forced by manpower shortages due to the war, but the fact remains the same- Albert Speer oversaw the transition of economy into slave state with millions of forced workers. The official statistic says that only from the USSR they took about 7mil slaves by the 1944.
7. The robber economy. I think this is pretty clear from the previously stated.
Bonus: high officers of all services were taking huge "gifts" directly from the Hitler or NSDAP which were deposited into swiss accounts. The most greedy one was, if I remember correctly, admiral Raeder.
Thank you for reading my austic sperging out, just wanted to debunk some myths with FACTS and LOGIC.
Also recommend this book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wages_of_Destruction