Blood Money : Financial Secrets of the Third Reich - Episode 1 : How to Finance a War ? | PURE WW2

When Hitler seized power in 1933, war was already his endgame. Violence lay at the heart of Nazi ideology: the strong must dominate, the weak must fall. But there was a problem—Germany had no modern army, no weapons, and an economy worn down by years of crisis. Far from the myth of a thriving Reich, the country was a middling power, no stronger than a present-day regional state. The Nazi regime then launched one of the most audacious financial operations of the 20th century. Through secret debt schemes, industrial coercion and massive state manipulation, they rebuilt the economy by pouring resources into weapons production.

In 1939, Hitler finally plunged Europe into war — a war financed entirely on credit, using looted assets and anticipated spoils as collateral. A conflict born from a financial illusion that could only survive through expansion.