The re-equipment of the front-line units with the latest generation of tanks and machine guns was incomplete. Ammunition stocks were sufficient to cover only a few weeks of fighting. But the progress since 1938, when the thought of a war over Czechoslovakia had been enough to drive the German army to near mutiny, was undeniable. By the summer of 1939, despite the protests from the procurement office, the German army was ready for a short war. There was no doubt at all that it could handle Poland. When Hitler gave the order to prepare for an attack in the spring of 1939 there was not a murmur
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