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>>/32049/ del > there was a brief period of stability LOL after outright famine? > The German Empire, Weimar and the Third Reich were all behind England, and even more so, America. Oh please... Germany was one of the leading industrial nations, it was the leading nation in science and research. Foreigner came to worship German universities. > like Japan There is no comparision... Japan was third world compared to Germany and did only catch up after the war in the 1950-60's with lots of "papercliped" stolen German know how. > took a long time to truly catch up with the First World in living standards and economic modernization. Please... Labour delegations to Germany before the Great War were shocked to learn how much better the living condition for the German working class were compared to the situation in Britain. German ruled Europe had first class living situation, that those countries separating from it would no longer experience for hundred years after until again a German financed restoration happened. > In 1939 Germany was still behind and its living standards were still lower. You mean a country that was plundered had not the same standard of living as that that did the plundering like France or the USA? With the USA that "living standard" is very doubtful, despite being the main profiteer of first World War and Versailles Treaty. > From the Great Depression onwards it had neither the exports nor the credit to pay for those imports Yeah if just someone found a economic reason for the poverty after WWI in Germany? > As a result of blockade, boycotts and straight plunder by the allies. You're trying to explain decade, even century-spanning differences in the modernization process The allies simply did steal German property and intellectual property - see Bayer USA. > prewar Germany being boycotted Germany was robbed at gun point. "Hey Germany why are you so poor?"