Fists of Steel (The Third Reich)
Language: English
Pages: 184
ISBN: 0809469669
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Traces the rebuilding of Germany's military after it was all but dismantled at the end of World War I, and the preparations for the next war.
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was the company he once owned fully nationalized, the better to serve the Nazi regime in air its drive for supremacy. 97 — 98 - *- am (D reconnaissance craft, transports such as the Ju 52 that might quickly be converted to bombers. Meanwhile, development of purely military planes, and the Do 11 bomber, continued in secret, but none was yet ready for mass production. By early 1934 Milch's strenuous efforts were yielding results. Employment in the aircraft industry reached
General Oswald von Lutz, a former commander and old friend of Guderian and a man alive to the possibilities of the new technology. Lutz promoted Guderian to chief of staff of the Inspectorate of Motorized Troops, and the two began a fruitful partnership. Together they beat back the opposition of the cavalry and the old-line infantry, refined behemoth their tactics, devised long-range plans that included continual exercises and ordered the first tank prototype that could realistically enter
fleet. In 1922, its effort to strengthen its under the terms of the Wash- ington Naval Treaty, the United States, Great Britain, Italy, France, and Japan agreed to limit their battle- and Germany, which was ships to a displacement weight of 35,000 tons their cruisers to 8,000 tons. allowed to replace its obsolete battleships in 1925, 119 m had such vessels to limit to the relatively paltry weight of German 10,000 tons. ers made design- the best of the situ- coming up
Krupp attracted to, 69-70; Krupp's financial support of, poster, 55: rallies at propaganda Nuremberg, 124, 68-70; 140-141; Reichswehr supports, 61-62; Schacht attracted to, 73: success in election of 1930, 53; symbolic union with Reichswehr, 84: Thyssens financial support of, 67 Netherlands: 40 Neurath, Constantin von: foreign minister, 147; opposes involvement in Spanish Ci\il War, 147 Nobel Prizes: awarded to Bosch and Bergius, 76; awarded to Haber, 79; awarded to Stresemann, 42
as of, Office, 102, 145; 101; Reichswehr's opposition to, 101; Wever ratify, 16; U-boats: See Ships Udet, Ernst: 146; head of Luftwaffe Technical bombing: Goring and, 101; Hitler and, 101; Knauss as proponent of, 99-100, soldiers airlifted to, 147, 149, 151, 157; Spanish Morocco as stronghold of, 147 Spain, Republican government of: 147; abandons Bilbao, 162; Basque support Tubbesing, Strategic Spain, Nationalist forces: assault on Teruel, 163; German training of tank crews, 150,
