78: Germany Prepares for War Pt. 1 - Overview

History of the Second World War

Wesley Livesay

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

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🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In 1936 Germany began to seriously prepare for a future conflict, and almost immediately began to run into some economic problems. Sources: The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze War and Economy in the Third Reich by R.J. Overy The Wehrmacht and German Rearmament by Wilhelm Deist The Third Reich and Yugoslavia: An Economcy of Fear, 1933-1941 by Perica Hadzi-Jovancic Hitler A Biography Hitler's Eagles by Chris McNab Quest for Decisive Victory: From Stalemate to Blitzkrieg in Europe, 1899-1940 by Robert M. Citino The Blitzkrieg Myth by John Mosier The Path to Blitzkrieg: Doctrine and Training in the German Army, 1920-1939 by Robert M. Citino 1930s German Doctrine: A Manifestation of Operational Art by Tal Tovy The Blitzkrieg Myth: How Hitler and the Allies Misread the Strategic Realities of World War II by John Mosier The Origin of the Term "Blitzkrieg": Another View by William J. Fanning Jr. Storm of Steel: The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Unition 1919-1939 by Mary R. Habeck Hitler's Eagles by Chris McNab Military Innovation in the Interwar Period Edited By Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett Ship-of-the-Line or Atlantic Raider? Battleship Bismarck Between Design Limitations and Naval Strategy by Timothy P. Mulligan Strategy for Defeat the Luftwaffe 1933-1945 by Williamson Murray Battleship Bismarck: A Design and Operational History by William H. Garzke Jr., Robert O. Dulin Jr., and William Jurens Contact sales@advertisecast.com to advertise on History of the Second World War. History of the Second World War is part of the Airwave Media podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:12.6	Jens, whose name I hope I am pronouncing correctly for their donation. I'm sorry if I got
1:20.2	your name totally wrong. Over the next seven episodes, we'll be focusing on topics around Germany
1:25.7	in roughly the last three years before the start of the war.
1:30.0	The first three will be focused mainly on economic discussions, which would be absolutely
1:34.8	critical as Germany prepared for the military confrontation that Hitler and others were
1:39.8	planning to create. As with all of these episodes revolving around the German economy, I have to give
1:45.7	a shout out to Adam Tews and his work the wages of destruction, the making and breaking of the Nazi
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