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That's the Explorers Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to History of the Second World War episode 32, the Third Reich

Part 18, Rearmerment.

This week, a big thank you goes out to Justin Baroon and Joseph for choosing

to support this podcast on Patreon, where they now get access to special ad-free versions of all

of these episodes, plus special Patreon-only episodes released once a month. For the current series,

it's a bit of a deep dive into the evolution of the Reichsvair during the 1920s, with a special focus

on how the German army of the 1920s planned to fight a war in the future. And that sounds interesting

to you. Head on over to History of Second World War.com slash members to find out more information.

During most of this series of episodes, which has been highly focused on political

developments in Germany, for what I think are pretty obvious reasons, the German military, or the

Reichs Fair, has only played a secondary role. This episode will shift focus a bit to discuss how

the political and social changes in Germany during the 1930s, allowed the German military to achieve many

of its goals which had been part of its planning since the end of the First World War.

Hitler's complete and total support for these goals would create the perfect conditions within

Germany to first reject the limitations placed upon the Reichs-Fair by the Versailles Treaty,

and then later to massively expand into

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