The German Industrial Power and the Navy League

Fritz Fisher says there's an anachronistic and conservative army that has fallen behind in terms of machine guns, intelligence, tanks, anti-tank weapons. Germany also another factor is the raw materials crunch. So they're getting into this Austria-Hungary, into southern Europe. They're setting up oil companies in Romania. Staua Romana. I don't know why that is actually Romania. To counter standard oil and royal Dutch shell. The Anatolian and Baghdad railways. They're getting into Krivoye-Rog and Chia-Turi ore deposits in Ukraine and Caucasus through relationships with Russian banks. This is going to be a long-term issue for