In 1936 Germany began to seriously prepare for a future conflict, and almost immediately began to run into some economic problems.

Sources:

• The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze
• War and Economy in the Third Reich by R.J. Overy
• The Wehrmacht and German Rearmament by Wilhelm Deist
• The Third Reich and Yugoslavia: An Economcy of Fear, 1933-1941 by Perica Hadzi-Jovancic
• Hitler A Biography
• Hitler's Eagles by Chris McNab
• Quest for Decisive Victory: From Stalemate to Blitzkrieg in Europe, 1899-1940 by Robert M. Citino
• The Blitzkrieg Myth by John Mosier
• The Path to Blitzkrieg: Doctrine and Training in the German Army, 1920-1939 by Robert M. Citino
• 1930s German Doctrine: A Manifestation of Operational Art by Tal Tovy
• The Blitzkrieg Myth: How Hitler and the Allies Misread the Strategic Realities of World War II by John Mosier
• The Origin of the Term "Blitzkrieg": Another View by William J. Fanning Jr.
• Storm of Steel: The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Unition 1919-1939 by Mary R. Habeck
• Hitler's Eagles by Chris McNab
• Military Innovation in the Interwar Period Edited By Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett
• Ship-of-the-Line or Atlantic Raider? Battleship Bismarck Between Design Limitations and Naval Strategy by Timothy P. Mulligan
• Strategy for Defeat the Luftwaffe 1933-1945 by Williamson Murray
• Battleship Bismarck: A Design and Operational History by William H. Garzke Jr., Robert O. Dulin Jr., and William Jurens

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