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The study Die bellizistische Republik. Wehrkonsens und "Wehrhaftmachung" in Deutschland 1918–1933 sheds new light on the secret rearmament of the Reichswehr during the Weimar Republic. The central argument is that the rearming was supported by republican forces and based in an intellectual tradition of 'Wehrhaftigkeit', but led to the formation of a 'state within a state', outside of legal norms and democratic control.&#62;&#62; review (in German)