He channeled the workers energy and innovativeness. For the second time. Remember when you had that history class about all the monarchs in Europe, did you ever notice how none of them were German until much later? That is because Germany did not unify into a nation until much later than its European peers. When they did they saw industrial output that immediately threatened Britain. That was World War I. And then they picked them selves up out of the ashes and began to produce again threatening Britain. That was World War II. Now Brittany is no longer a nation so much as a bunch of banks. Russia and the United States of America took the opportunity of both world wars to make great leaps forward.