Phase I: Autarky and Rearmament (1933–1939)
The foundation of the 1943 victory was laid not on the battlefield, but in the ledgers of the Reich Ministry of Economics. Upon seizing power in 1933, the German strategic outlook was defined by the "Memory of Blockade." The collapse of 1918 was attributed not to military defeat in the field, but to the logistical strangulation by the Royal Navy.
To rectify this, the Vierjahresplan (Four Year Plan) of 1936, spearheaded by Hermann Göring, shifted th