re: #269 Dr Lizardo

It’s been suggested that one motivation for Hitler’s rush to war in 1939 was his hypochondria - he was apparently obsessed with the notion that he was going to die of cancer (no doubt caused by the trauma of his mother’s untimely death from breast cancer) and that if he didn’t act right then and there, then Germany would have no future.

His generals (and especially his admirals) really wanted him to wait until 1943 until he had the army and navy properly equipped and enough reserves or fuel and munitions on hand to win a war.