... the Nazi economy proved that Hitler just wanted him there because he was an uncompromising Nazi, and therefore met the ideological objectives of the Nazi state. The first and most important factor concerning the economy was that the Nazi party had directed it principally towards rearmament (Wehrwirtschaft) and as Alan Bullock attests, the Nazis were 'indifferent to the cost or long-term economic consequences, provided they got the arms they wanted quickly.'2 The Nazis concentrated the majority of the efforts and resources into the rearmament programme and the Ministry of Defence found that it could not spend all the money allocated to it. Hitler had always predicted a future war and had assumed that that it would be fought against the communist Soviet Union, Nazism's sworn adversary. This suggests that the rearmament policy was in preparation for this war and therefore ideological because the crushing of Bolshevism was one of the ...

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