Germany did great during the Great Depression because, ironically, they embraced free market capitalism.
@Engineer I have a hard time believing this: Hitler was very much against privatization of industries as he saw it as a tool to fulfill Jewish interest.
They did learn a few lessons from Soviet complete collectivization of land and labor but they are 180° from Free market. Business owners had little say in what they can do, and usually had a hard time breaking even due to the vampiristic taxes they had to pay.
The State controlled the economy, but were smart enough not to centrally plan.
@Wopu Only the free market can grow an economy, the fact that they had an economic miracle means they were probably relatively free market compared to the rest of the world during the great depression.
@Engineer The USSR had fine growth starting from a Tsarist regime barely budding its Industrial revolution.
China has steadily been the country with one of the highest year-to-year economic growth since adopting "Market Socialism" back in the 90s.
You don't always need completely free markets to get growth. It just needs to be more free than it was.
As far as property rights go, it was one of the first things to have been removed from the Weimar Constitution when the Nazis took over.
