Nazi rearmament claims relied on political myths

Why did German leaders argue that other powers' limited disarmament entitled Germany to rearm?

The claim rested on political myths and propaganda that concealed the Nazi leadership's independent commitment to rearmament and expansion.

German demands for rearmament were presented through claims that the army had been betrayed in 1918 and that Versailles was uniquely unjust because other powers had not disarmed as far. The stab-in-the-back myth denied military defeat and shifted blame to politicians. Nazi antisemitic conspiracy theories added another false explanation for the war and its outcome. These arguments did not form a consistent legal or strategic case. They supplied political cover for leaders who wanted renewed military power and treated German domination as an end in itself.