Status Updates From The Wages of Destruction: T...

Need a pause to focus on other books

finally getting around to this behemoth after listening to toozes podcast for a few months

The way this book clarifies every Nazi ideological stance, political position, and economic decision during the war in an intertwined and straightforward way, making argument based on trade offs and 'dialectical' (my wording) opposition within decision-making, is just enthralling. Tooze's writing can combine isolated set of statistics and figures with the most damning explanation of Nazi policy at the top level.