How was Germany able to get back on its feet so fast after the losses it suffered in WW1 and be completely rearmed for WW2?
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They used the new USSR as their secret place to rearm, a thing that seems to have been memory-holed.
Time to re-up this again: [https://warontherocks.com/2016/06/sowing-the-wind-the-first-soviet-german-military-pact-and-the-origins-of-world-war-ii/](https://warontherocks.com/2016/06/sowing-the-wind-the-first-soviet-german-military-pact-and-the-origins-of-world-war-ii/)
Hitler wasn’t an aberration as far as the German military industrial complex was concerned. They recognized the USSR first, before anyone else in the world, because both nations had a mutual interest in undermining the international order.
WW2 was inevitable. Hitler wasn’t, but WW2 was. As Foch observed, all too presciently, on the signing of the Versailles Treaty, “This is not peace. It is an armistice for 20 years”.
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