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Episode 84, Germany prepares for war part seven, influences, and decisions.

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One of the challenges that has to be faced

when discussing any nation's military evolution

at really any point in modern history,

including during the 1930s,

is that there were always a variety of inputs that

influenced their decisions and actions. These could have been internal factors, external events,

geography, politics, industry. There's a whole list of different things that can cause nations

and military leaders to make different choices.

All of these inputs can then affect how things happen, like, for example, how the German

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