Covert rearmament efforts had been well on their way from the early 1920s, but even still, the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles kept the nation far short of the kind of power it would need for outward expansion. For any of the Nazi Party’s promises to come true, German society itself would have to reorganize toward a single goal: War, and victory, at any cost. As we will explore today…well, that’s precisely what they did.