: Investigate the role of central bankers like Montagu Norman (Bank of England) and Hjalmar Schacht (Reichsbank) in using hyperinflation and subsequent bailouts, such as the Dawes Plan , to steer German politics toward a reactionary movement.
: Analyze how Halford Mackinder’s 1904 "Heartland Theory"—the idea that controlling the Eurasian landmass leads to global dominance—influenced British efforts to prevent a German-Russian alliance. Conjuring Hitler: How Britain And America Made ...
: Examine Thorstein Veblen’s critique of the Treaty of Versailles as a deliberate tool to leave German aristocratic elites in power to act as a "bulwark" against Soviet Russia. : Investigate the role of central bankers like
: Contrast the conventional narrative of Nazism as a "political accident" with Preparata’s thesis of deliberate Anglo-American geopolitical engineering. such as the Dawes Plan