When Hitler took power in 1933, the German unemployment rate was 30%. The economic growth rate was -6%.

When Obama too power in 2009, the American unemployment rate was 7.6%.
The economic growth rate was -6%.

By 1935, two years after taking power, the German unemployment rate sat at 15%. It would further fall to 4% after 5 years of Hitler's leadership. The economic growth rate was 9%.

By 2011, two years after taking power, the American unemployment rate is 9.2% (officially). The economic growth rate is an anemic 1.3%.

Now, I'm not endorsing Hitler's other policies by any means, but it seems pretty obvious that his greater control of government allowed him to implement some of the best economic reforms ever made in human history. Hitlernomics WORKS.

The same pattern can be observed in Fascist Italy, and in Stalinist Russia. It was a war with the Axis, which had already recovered from the Great Depression, which saved the democratic countries' economies.