Should Hitler have waited?

Quite regularly I get comments along the lines that the Wehrmacht wasn’t ready for war in 1939 and that Hitler’s mistake was that he didn’t continue the build-up for a few more years, so that the Wehrmacht and German industry would be ready for war.

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