It argues that " Western powers " aided Nazi rearmament and aggression, including that American bankers and industrialists provided capital for the growth of German war industries, while deliberately encouraging Hitler to expand eastward.

On 21 May 1935 Hitler gave a speech in which he proclaimed that German rearmament offered no threat to world peace.

Once German and Japanese rearmament became clear, the British and American navies consciously focused on building destroyers that were smaller but more numerous than those used by other nations.

Nazi Germany similarly pursued an economic agenda with the aims of autarky and rearmament and imposed protectionist policies, including forcing the German steel industry to use lower-quality German iron ore rather than superior-quality imported iron.

It argues that " Western powers " aided Nazi rearmament and aggression, including that American bankers and industrialists provided capital for the growth of German war industries, while deliberately encouraging Hitler to expand eastward.

Ribbentrop wanted to buy time to complete German rearmament by removing preventive war as a French policy option.

As for the contradiction between German rearmament and his message of peace, Ribbentrop argued to whoever would listen that the German people had been “ humiliated ” by the Versailles treaty, that Germany wanted peace above all, and German violations of Versailles were part of an effort to restore Germany's " self-respect " By the 1930s, much of British opinion had been convinced that the treaty was monstrously unfair and unjust to Germany, so as a result, many in Britain like Thomas Jones were very open to Ribbentrop ’ s message that if only Versailles could be done away with, then European peace would be secured.

Neville Chamberlain's European Policy in 1939 was based upon creating a " peace front " of alliances linking Western and Eastern European states to serve as a " tripwire " meant to deter any act of German aggression The new “ containment ” strategy adopted in March 1939 comprised giving firm warnings to Berlin, increasing the pace of British rearmament and attempting to form an interlocking network of alliances that would block German aggression anywhere in Europe by creating such a formidable deterrence to aggression that Hitler could not rationally chose that option.

and Adenauer linked this rearmament concept to West German sovereignty and entry into NATO.

After Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, the Krupp works became the center for German rearmament.

Foot was however a critic of the West's handling of the Korean War, an opponent of West German rearmament in the early 1950s and a founder member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

* August 12 – Winston Churchill makes his first public speech warning of the dangers of German rearmament.

* March 16 – Adolf Hitler announces German rearmament in violation of the Versailles Treaty.

In 1957, she moved to the University of Münster, where she met the Spanish Marxist Manuel Sacristán ( who later translated and edited some of her writings ) and joined the Socialist German Student Union, participating in the protests against the rearmament of the Bundeswehr and its involvement with nuclear weapons as proposed by Konrad Adenauer's government.

The party was split over issues as rearmament within the Western alliance and German unification as a neutral state.

Hitler and Ley were aware that the suppression of the trade unions and the prevention of wage increases by the Trustees of Labour system, when coupled with their relentless demands for increased productivity to hasten German rearmament, created a real risk of working-class discontent.

General Ludwig Beck, chief of the German general staff, noted that Hitler's change of heart in favour of quick action was due to Czech defences still being improvised, which would cease to be the case 2 – 3 years later, and British rearmament not coming into effect until 1941 / 42.

He also angered such extremists by negotiating the Treaty of Rapallo, 1922 with the Soviet Union, although the treaty implicitly recognized secret German-Soviet collaboration, begun in 1921, which provided for the rearmament of Germany, including German aircraft manufacturing, inside the Soviet union.

According to Mason, by 1939, the “ overheating ” of the German economy caused by rearmament, the failure of various rearmament plans produced by the shortages of skilled workers, industrial unrest caused by the breakdown of German social policies, and the sharp drop in living standards for the German working class forced Hitler into going to war at a time and place not of his choosing.

Fear of the German program turned out to be vastly exaggerated.

But the heart of the message was as Byrnes stated a month later " The nub of our program was to win the German people.

In the 1920s, the United States followed an independent course, and succeeded in a program of naval disarmament, and refunding the German economy.

The enormous success of the Dopolavoro in Fascist Italy was the key factor in Nazi Germany's creation of its own version of the Dopolavoro, the Kraft durch Freude ( KdF ) or " Strength through Joy " program of the Nazi government's German Labour Front, which became even more successful than the Dopolavoro.

This document, termed " Hope for a Lost Generation ", promises to bring 30, 000 young Irish people off the Live Register in a year by combining a National Internship Program, a Second Chance Education Scheme, an Apprenticeship Guarantee and Community Work Program, as well as instituting a German style, Workshare program.

As Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood, Himmler was deeply involved in the Germanization program for the East, particularly Poland.

Here a part of the team on the German rocket program was developing the Wasserfall missile, a variant of the V-2 rocket, the first ground-to-air missile.

The design was not a uniquely British concept as similar ships were being built around the world, nor was it uniquely intended as a counter to German naval expansion, but the effect was to immediately require Germany to reconsider its naval building program.

This all contributed to growing opposition in the Reichstag to any further expansion, particularly when it was clear that Britain intended to match and exceed any German expansion program.

His father insisted he go abroad for graduate studies, and had Atta enroll in a German language program at the Goethe Institute in Cairo.

The German couple ran an exchange program between Germany and Egypt, and suggested that Atta continue his studies in Germany.

German actions like Kulturkampf, the program of Germanization started to unite and mobilize Polish people in Polish inhabited territories held by Germany including Masuria A Polish-oriented party, the Mazurska Partia Ludowa (" Mazur People's Party "), was founded in 1897.

According to the same program, the crisis committee delegated to make decisions on how to deal with the incident consisted of Bruno Merk ( the Bavarian interior minister ), Hans-Dietrich Genscher ( the West German interior minister ) and Manfred Schreiber ( Munich's Chief of Police ); in other words, two politicians and one tactician.

Bismarck's program centered squarely on insurance programs designed to increase productivity, and focus the political attentions of German workers on supporting the Junker's government.

The program was established to provide health care for the largest segment of the German workers.

They were deliberately starved to death in German camps as part of a Hunger Plan, i. e., the program to reduce the Eastern European population.

Nazi control of the German film industry is the most extreme example of the use of film in the service of a fascist national program and, in 1933, Hitler created the Reich Ministry for People's Enlightenment and Propaganda and appointed the youthful Joseph Goebbels as its head.

This expulsion program also included German speaking inhabitants of Lower Silesia, eastern Pomerania, Gdańsk ( Danzig ), and East Prussia.

* Albert Einstein German Academic Refugee Initiative Fund, a scholarship program for refugees administered by UNHCR

The products of a German interbreeding program were destroyed after World War II.

In 1995, 50 years after the end of World War II and five years after German reunification, the AFRC Berchtesgaden was turned over to Bavarian authorities to facilitate military spending reductions mandated within the Base Realignment and Closure program by the United States Congress and the Pentagon during the administration of US President Bill Clinton.

Since the spring of 1945 the Poles had been forcefully expelling the remaining German population in these provinces in a program of ethnic cleansing.

Contemporary American critics of Denazification denounced it as a " counterproductive witch hunt " and a failure ; in 1951 the provisional West German government granted amnesties to lesser offenders and ended the program.

Using the German press, which was under Allied control, as well as posters and pamphlets, a program was conducted to acquaint ordinary Germans with what had taken place in the concentration camps.