WHEN HITLER CAME TO POWER in 1933, Germanyits military strictly limited by the Treaty of Versailles—had a 100,000-man army and a few dozen tanks and combat aircraft that had been covertly produced and hidden in Soviet Russia. Six years later, the Wehrmacht had over three million men, 4,000 planes, and nearly 3,500 tanks. written by Ian Ona Johnson, a military history professor at the University of Notre Dame, addresses
