soc.history.war.world-war-ii

"Geoffrey Sinclair" wrote

> Commercial firms making rational commercial decisions.
>
> In Germany what happened to Hugo Junkers was a powerful lesson
> for the aviation industry to heed.
>
> The new German government wanted lots of warplanes and were
> prepared to finance the expansions much earlier than other
> governments.

A debate about relative re-armament particulars in Britain, France and the
UK is pointless without relating it to the relative structures and
constraints of finance/investment, business, politics, government and law in
these three states. Of course, such a wider context would go beyond
comfortable secondary-source statistics and elementary headline assumptions
and require a deeper knowledge of real socioeconomic and political history.