t is a somewhat
sobering analogy -- Nazi leadership (and complicity by the 'conservative'
business class) took Germany from ashes and poverty to World Power -- if
only right into a destructive war.


I think you forgat a small detail,Germany before ashes and powerty was a
scientific,technological and military powerhouse,even in the middle of ashes
and powerty,Germans produced many all stars of science and technology.
But the powerty has also produced worlds largest communist party outside SU and
that was the reason why corporate Germany supported Nazis.
Without NSDAP and with more clever leadership Germany could dominate whole
world even without firing one shot in anger.
Germany did not lose WWII in 1942,they lost it in 1933.