How do you square that with Germany’s miraculous economic recovery pre WII? Obviously they were doing something right. It took every other major power on the planet to take them down.
Year Military Spending (billions of RM) % of GDP
1933 0.7 1.0%
1934 4.0 5.1%
1935 5.5 7.0%
1936 10.3 12.2%
1937 11.5 12.7%
1938 17.2 17.2%
1939 38.0 23.0%
Did they build their military to go to war? Or were they force to go to war as the nature of their economy forced them?