Germany's War Effort and Its Failure Draft Report by the Joint Intelligence Staff

2 basically desired by the German people. It is true that Hitler forced the pace in German rearmament and in the development of the German policy; it is also true that in many ways his personal influence caused deviation from the strategy which the General Staff would themselves have preferred to pursue; but it is nevertheless important to emphasise that the policy pursued by Hitler was a logical development. of Germany's nationalist revival which began Immediately after the defeat of Germany in 1918 and whose purpose it was to reverse the verdict of the last war.