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1. Adolf Hitler

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   Economic and Military Rearmament
   Hitler prioritized rearmament as both economic stimulus and strategic necessity. Massive military spending, directed toward construction of the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe, reduced unemployment from 6 million (1932) to approximately 500,000 by 1938. This rearmament program violated the Treaty of Versailles, but the Western powers offered minimal resistance. Hitler simultaneously pursued autarky—economic self-sufficiency—through territorial expansion and resource extraction from conqu…