The Musings Of The Consensus

 This little blog post is about a bit of economic history that tends to be glossed over in many history books, at least those without a strong economic focus. In fact, it's both ingenious and moronic in equal measure, but the Nazis made heavy use of it to rearm for what would be World War II and I wanted to cover it. First some background. After World War I, Germany was forbidden to rebuild their military beyond a pitiful level, mostly because the guys who won did not want Germany trying to go for round 2. Of course, the Nazis had every intention of going for round 2, but they needed to find a way to pay for the rearmament expenses without getting caught, and also do so without scaring away people because they were a terrible credit risk. It's really hard to do both because credit requires public records of your ability to pay back debts to act as a basis for your ability to get credit. At least, that's how it usually works. The Nazis thus had to get a ton of money by hook ...

 Before I continue, please refer to this post, where I explain why I took my mods off Nexus Mods and why any further contributions there are permanently off the table as far as I'm concerned: https://gethn7.blogspot.com/2024/08/a-little-more-information-as-to-why-my.html With the above in mind, I have elected to restore some of my old Nexus work to Bethesda.net. Note, not all, because some were already there, and some I cannot be sure works now, and I wish to wait until I have time to do this. Bethesda.Net has not, to this date, given me the slightest hassle about what I post off their site that has to do with my personal worldviews, all they care about is game mods. I expect no trouble with them, unlike Nexus Mods, Bethesda just wants to make money and promote their games and I just want to make mods with the tools they graciously provide. I don't even make mods that touch on social or political topics, mostly just patches, gameplay alterations, and the rare model or texture m...