by the average German in the 1930s.70 This, however, begs the question of what rearmament did mean to Germans in the 1930s. Is it really right to see rearmament simply as a drag on the standard of living, as one more obstacle to the realization of dreams of mass-consumption? Or might it in fact be more appropriate to reverse this train of logic and to think of rearmament as a particular form of collective mass-consumption?
