saying that the cabinet would have to bear the responsibility of financing the measures. Hermann Müller, his successor as chancellor, followed the same course.

After almost two years of preparatory work, the First Armament Program was approved by the Chief of Army Command on 29 September 1928 and adopted by the Müller cabinet on 18 October. The aim of the program, which for the first time integrated the entire material rearmament plan of the army into a five-year