Albeit, it was True, The Wehrmacht was growing, growing larger, new Panzer divisions ordered, new Infantry Divisions conscripted, new airplanes manufactured, new ships assembled, it would be enough, Or so the Reichstag hoped.
The Re-Occupation of the Rhineland was the first step of Germany's rise, and it met stiff diplomatic resistance from the Allied Powers, but they did nothing, nothing, and Germany grew more powerful, under their very noses.
The Reich Even Stepped away from its dependency on Swedish Steel, A Deal, Shipping 52 Tons of Coal From Hamburg to New York, And 52 Tons of Steel From Charlotte, in the United States to Wilhelmshaven, and industry prospered, and every day, the USA saw the world through the eyes of Hitler, Germany and the USA, close, albeit before 1938.
And Yes, The Spanish Civil War, and One the Reich Would Profit From, Only Soviet Support Made it to the Republicans, and it would not be enough, German Aid arrived, along with 2 Expeditionary Forces, Field Marshall Von Leeb, Leading the X Armeekorps, Alongside the I Panzerarmee Under Field Marshal Kucher And The 1st Corps Under Field Marshall Von Manstein, all landing and assisting the Nationalists, Madrid Fell, Valencia, Nationalist Spain Finnaly Granted Germany the Military Access it required, The Expeditionary Forces Returned To The Control of Germany, The Initiative was Taken, and war erupted between The Third Reich and Republican Spain, And Barcelona Was Promptly Occupied, By The 1st Corps.
December 1937, Cartagena Occupied, January 1938, Almería Occupied, Then Malaga, Republican Spain Fell, and all the while, Germany stole the very provinces it had promised to help deliver to the Nationalists, February Granada And Seville, And Then, it Ended, And The Nationalists Annexed what they had. And The German Reich Settled into its occupation of Southern Spain, And Barcelona.
Seville To Spandau, The Reich Was Sworn to stretch first.
