>>212993416military expenditure was pure deficit spending and it was financed via debt, it was a bubble for the sake of extreme rearmament
by 1938 hitler couldn't stop even if he wanted because germany would have to pay it out eventually and also eventually inflation would have hit the economy despite all the financial fuckery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mefo_bills
regardless, it's all downstream from ideology
people supported the war because of stoked revanchism
big money supported the war because of immense profits from government contracts and plunder