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The Heinkel He 111, one of the technologically advanced aircraft that were designed and produced illegally in the 1930s as part of the clandestine German rearmament. German rearmament (Aufrüstung, German pronunciation: [ˈaʊ̯fˌʀʏstʊŋ]) was a policy and practice of rearmament carried out by Germany from 1918 to 1939 in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, which required German ...
MEFO was the more common abbreviation for German: MEtallurgische FOrschungsgesellschaft m.b.H. (English: Society for Metallurgical Research LLC), [1] a dummy company set up by the Nazi German government to finance the German re-armament effort in the years prior to World War II.
West German rearmament (German: Wiederbewaffnung) began in the decades after World War II. Fears of another rise of German militarism caused the new military to operate within an alliance framework, under NATO command. [1] The events led to the establishment of the Bundeswehr, the West German military, in 1955.
The fear of a resurgence of German militarism was increasingly proven unfounded. German rearmament in the West led to a protest movement emerging in the 1960s as a result of the intensification of the Cold War. This protest movement evolved into a movement for peace in general by the 1980s, a period in which large-scale armament in both West ...
West Germany's rearmament in the early 1950s was strongly supported by the US military and weakly opposed by President Truman, with the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 leading to full US support. The establishment of the Bundeswehr, the West German military, followed in 1955.
Ralph Follett Wigram CMG (/ r eɪ f ˈ w ɪ ɡ r əm / rayf WIG-rəm; 23 October 1890 – 31 December 1936) was a British government official in the Foreign Office.He helped raise the alarm about German rearmament under Hitler during the period prior to World War II.
In December 1941, when the United States entered the war against Germany, 250 American firms owned more than $450 million of German assets. [13] Major American companies with investments in Germany included General Motors, IT&T, Eastman Kodak, Standard Oil, Singer, International Harvester, Gillette, Coca-Cola, Kraft, Westinghouse, and United Fruit.
After the Nazi regime took power in January 1933, Germany began working towards rearmament and the remilitarisation of the Rhineland. On 7 March 1936, using the Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance as a pretext, Hitler ordered the Wehrmacht to march 20,000 German troops into the Rhineland, which caused joyous celebrations across Germany.