It’s always hazardeous to rewrite History. I tend to believe this is because bad things happen that people learn and make progress. It may be because Great Depression and WWII happened that Friedman was able to elaborate his theory.

Modern historians are clear about the root cause behing national socialism: it’s not an economical crisis but a deep identity crisis of the German people that made us believe thay had the right to get back their land and power in Europe. The economical crisis just did not help them go another way.

Lau