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

Summary Episode 2, Germany prepares for war.

Summary episodes are where I take an entire series of episodes and condense them down into a single episode

to help bring important information back to the forefront before it is needed.

In this case, this episode, is being released before the episodes on the invasion of France.

If you want to hear far more about the topics that I'm about to discuss,

you can go back to listen to episode 78 through

84, which were released in January and February of 2002.

The original episodes were focused on Germany's path towards war and what the German

military was planning to do in the coming conflict. This was a critical time for the later

events of the Second World War, because while there

would continue to be arms production and development, the decisions made in the late 1930s

and their rearmament efforts of those late 1930s would largely set the course for the first

few years of the war.

This summary episode will focus on the impact that the Versailles Treaty had on German

rearmament, the rearmament efforts of the three primary German armed forces, and then

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