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That's the Explorers Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to history of the Second World War.

Episode 79, Germany prepares for war part two, The Plan.

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history of ancient Greece and the run-up to the Peloponnesian War. That's again the Maritime

History podcast, so check it out. Back to our history now. If Germany wanted to achieve its armament goals in the last four years of the 1930s, it needed an economic plan.

This plan needed to have two high-level goals. The first was to optimize as much as possible every

domestic resource. This included pouring money and time into creating substitutes for items

that it did not have domestic sources of, and this would also enable the second goal to be more

easily accomplished. That second goal was to guarantee that four resources that were imported into

Germany, they were both properly prioritized and properly used.

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