Adolf Hitler, orders the rearmament of the country on March 16, 1935, using the justification that Germany needed to be able to defend itself. The order included army, air force and navy expansions and conscription, all in violation of The Treaty of Versailles, which had limited the German army to 100,000 men and did not allowed a draft. More
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