Qvist wrote:
It is logically impossible prove that [german antisemitic policy did NOT create serious economic disruptions](as it is for any negative), which doesn't say anything about whether it is true or not.
When Miklos
Ő Főméltósága a Magyar Királyság Kormányzója Horthy says:
Since, however, one of the most important tasks of the government is to raise the standard of living, i.e., we have to acquire wealth, it is impossible, in a year or two, to replace the Jews, who have everything in their hands, and to replace them with incompetent, unworthy, mostly big-mouthed elements, for we should become bankrupt.
I take that at face value. So accounting for the time Nagybanyai made his statement, he likely believed that, and my
personal experience makes me agree with the "we should become bankrupt" conclusion.
You'd have to make a case that it did cause serious economic disruptions, and if it can't be shown to have, then there is no reason to assume it did. For my part, I have some difficulty seeing any very obvious way in which might have had such an effect, other than depriving the German war effort of a potentially significant labour pool. The material resources that were owned by Jews did not disappear when they were taken from their rightful owners, and nor was it possible for emigres to bring significant financial resources with them.
Indeed we are (I hope the censors will not demur) in a setting similar to this, a patient questions a doctor's 1000 US$ charge for a simple operation that consisted of placing one screw in a bone. Then the physician remits a detailed bill, that breaks down the charge as:
Titanium Screw _______________25 US$
Knowing how to screw it in_____975 US$
If you discount jewish know-how, then the problem is indeed insignificant. However, you CANNOT discount the jewish know-how.
For a look on the impact on the healthcare system:
Death of Medicine in Nazi Germany. Impact on the german army operations from excluding 16% of the physicians from service - can only be speculated upon.
In Romania 500 of the 1000 surgeons were jewish, and unceremoniously kicked out of service by Ion-"better dead than treated by a zhyd"-Antonescu. As Romania took 90,000 casualties in one boondoggle (Odessa) alone in something like 75 days of fighting, having an extra 500 surgeons available was bound to lead to a few thousand soldier's lives saved. How many? 5? 10? 15? One can only speculate, but the impact was not trivial.
I am not aware of a systematic study of the economic effects, but we can start with the size of the Kristallnacht fine (1 billion RM, 10% of jewsh wealth), and by applying some reasonable multipliers (the wealth created over average of 25 years, with a jews retaining an average of 20% of the wealth created), we arrive to a sum of ~2 billion RM for the wealth created
per annum by the jewish community in the DeutschReich, alone. Accounting for the conquered+vassal Europe economy, one easily accounts for 4-8 billion RM
per annum as a measure of economic impact. Even with a 50% penalty for blockade effects, it's still a hefty tab of 2-4 billion RM for the Nazi antisemitic follies.
e.g. the ironic link between Magda Goebbels' complaint that ain't a decent tailor left in Berlin (as per all of them being Jewish) and Adolf's troops freezing their ass (literally) at the front cca December '41 as per lack of winter coats.
Well, maybe Magda Goebbels musings about coats is not the best of measures for this issue.
No, the number of Ostfront frostbite cases (228 thousand per Albert Seaton's
The German Army, 1933-45, via a Sid Guttridge post at Feldgrau), a much better one.
Nobody expects the Fallschirm! Our chief weapon is surprise; surprise and fear; fear and surprise. Our 2 weapons are fear and surprise; and ruthless efficiency. Our *3* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency; and almost fanatical devotion