In The Wages of Destruction, Adam Tooze analyses the German economy between World War I and World War II. Tooze argues that the failure of the Nazi economic plan, and the World War was wholly the result of the Nazi party's ideology that considered rearmament and expansionism (Lebensraum) through war, as the only economically viable policy for self-sufficiency in the wake of international isolation that they imposed on themselves. This argument is supported by Jonas Scherner he argues that the Nazis had completely mobilized the German economy to be ready for a prolonged conflict, their spending on war was only slightly lower than that of Japan, and despite stagnating economy the purchasing of armaments remained as the main priority of the
