Germany prepared for war partly by absorbing neighbouring industrial capacity. The Škoda works in Czechoslovakia were a prized arms-production asset, so German rearmament was not an entirely domestic achievement. Responsibility for the works later went to Göring's brother, described here as strongly anti-Nazi. The example connects military expansion to the economic and administrative problems behind German preparations for war.
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German expansion as an industrial shopping list
German expansion gave the regime access to productive assets such as Czechoslovakia's Škoda works.