When did Hitler restore conscription in Germany?

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Wehrmacht German soldiers fighting in the Soviet Union as part of Operation Barbarossa, 1941.

Adolf Hitler restored conscription in Germany on March 16, 1935.12

By reintroducing the military draft, Hitler openly defied the disarmament clauses of the Treaty of Versailles, which had previously abolished conscription and limited the German army to 100,000 volunteer troops. This action served to make public his previously clandestine rearmament program and facilitated the expansion of the German military into the Wehrmacht.12