Hitler's Rearmament

Range of Years

• 1933 to 1945
• from beginning of Nazi Germany to the end of WWII

Where

• Throughout all of Germany
• Kept secret
• in buildings no one would expect to be building guns, weapons, tanks, bombs, etc.

Hitler's Motives

• Hitler saw the Treaty of Versailles as a limitation for Germany's military
• he did not see why a limit was required for this

Continued

• He wanted to retake everything Germany lost and could not do that without an army
• His ideas were to conceal the rearmament till Germany was more powerful than any nation in Europe

Continued

• Hitler wanted to reclaim the German Empire
• He didn't want to live in a democracy
• he was hungry for power and dictatorship

Europe's Leaders Response

• The leaders did not know about the German rearmament
• Germany kept it a secret
• Hitler's one goal was to keep the world from knowing about it

Consequences

• Jewish labor force was used for it
• went against the Treaty of Versailles
• caused the next World War

Video

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGZueuWeUdc

Learned

• Hitler secretly was making an army 3 times as big as the Treaty of Versailles allowed
• remade the German air force, with 800 planes
• after 2 years he made it public

Continued

• With the League of Nations, Britain, and France all ignoring Germany's rearmament Hitler decided to keep going
• Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland and continued gaining more land until Britain, France, and the League of Nations said that he had to much and went to war