I wonder if this subject is modeled in some way in HOI4.
When the Nazi party seized power, they went into a crazy cycle of spending and building, in order to raise the population's mood and to stimulate the economy. It worked, and many german workers got their first holidays in a decade under the NS system.
At the same time though the German state was running a serious deficit from 1933 on. The arms industry would supply armaments through a special system of 'state bonds', which at the same time allowed to hide the massive military build up and to pospone the payment for the armaments to a later date. Reserves were running out quickly, Germany had little prospect of attracting investors due to their policies, and in general the predictions were bankruptcy in a near future.
For these reasons the diplomatic successes from 1936 to 1939 were a multiple bonus to the Reich. They gained new land and resources, they recovered their dismal prestige... but really most importantly they managed to pospone their inevitable bankruptcy a little longer. For the first thing the Nazis did in any newly annexed territory was not to pursue their ideological goals, but to sack the central banks and get a hold of anything of value they could reach.
There never was a scenario in which the Nazi party kept ruling and did not declare war.
German policy was a constant escape forward from an economic point of view. It's hard to tell wether Hitler was aware of this, but the more technically involved people in his entourage certainly were.
In computer games though it's often possible to play on without going to war in 1939, or at all. Germany gets more than a few unrealistic bonuses to allow them to perform close to a historic level because the real reasons for their early success are hard to quantify and simulate in a game.
Playing a peaceful Nazi Germany game can seem like the smart choice given their strength. But it would not have been a real option back then.
So I wonder, does Germany get any kind of events or penalties for NOT being constantly expanding after 1936?
When the Nazi party seized power, they went into a crazy cycle of spending and building, in order to raise the population's mood and to stimulate the economy. It worked, and many german workers got their first holidays in a decade under the NS system.
At the same time though the German state was running a serious deficit from 1933 on. The arms industry would supply armaments through a special system of 'state bonds', which at the same time allowed to hide the massive military build up and to pospone the payment for the armaments to a later date. Reserves were running out quickly, Germany had little prospect of attracting investors due to their policies, and in general the predictions were bankruptcy in a near future.
For these reasons the diplomatic successes from 1936 to 1939 were a multiple bonus to the Reich. They gained new land and resources, they recovered their dismal prestige... but really most importantly they managed to pospone their inevitable bankruptcy a little longer. For the first thing the Nazis did in any newly annexed territory was not to pursue their ideological goals, but to sack the central banks and get a hold of anything of value they could reach.
There never was a scenario in which the Nazi party kept ruling and did not declare war.
German policy was a constant escape forward from an economic point of view. It's hard to tell wether Hitler was aware of this, but the more technically involved people in his entourage certainly were.
In computer games though it's often possible to play on without going to war in 1939, or at all. Germany gets more than a few unrealistic bonuses to allow them to perform close to a historic level because the real reasons for their early success are hard to quantify and simulate in a game.
Playing a peaceful Nazi Germany game can seem like the smart choice given their strength. But it would not have been a real option back then.
So I wonder, does Germany get any kind of events or penalties for NOT being constantly expanding after 1936?
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