electrically smelted steel was both vital to rearmament and a major business of the future. Whereas German output of regular steel even at the height of production barely reached half the capacity of the United States, in electrically smelted steel Germany was level pegging by 1939.89 With Borbet and Rohland leading the way, the Reich’s output of specialist high-quality steel increased sevenfold between 1929 and 1939.
