Whilst doing everything possible to raise steel production and reallocate it to the military, he now ceaselessly raised the level of international tension. Rather than domestic mobilization creating the conditions for war, international tension was to become the principal lever through which the leadership of the Third Reich–ably assisted both by key industrialists and careerist soldiers–catapulted the German economy into a dramatically higher level of mobilization. International escalation opened the door to domestic mobilization, not the other way around.
