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The foreign policy and war aims of the Nazis have been the subject of debate among historians. The Nazis governed Germany between 1933 and 1945. There has been disagreement over whether Adolf Hitler aimed solely at European expansion and domination, or whether he planned for a long-term global empire.
By 1942, Hitler's empire encompassed much of Europe, but the territories annexed lacked population desired by the Nazis. [160] From the point of view of the Nazis, though Germany had acquired her Lebensraum, she now needed to populate these lands according to Nazi ideology and racial principles. [160]
The prophecy served as "the transmission belt between Hitler’s own inner conviction" that the war would result in the genocide of Europe's Jews and the murders carried out by his subordinates. [122] Party insiders understood the invocation of the prophecy as a call to radical action against the Jews without explicit instructions. [222]
The meeting marked the beginning of Hitler's foreign policies becoming radicalised. According to the memorandum, Hitler did not want war with Britain and France in 1939. Instead, he favoured small wars of plunder to support Germany's struggling economy. Hitler's army adjutant, Colonel Friedrich Hossbach, took minutes at the
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Hitler's political views were formed during three periods; namely (1) his years as a poverty-stricken young man in Vienna and Munich prior to World War I, during which he turned to nationalist-oriented political pamphlets and antisemitic newspapers out of distrust for mainstream newspapers and political parties; (2) the closing months of World ...
But while he has many fans in Europe equally critical of the continent’s many faults, his views are far more divisive in the more left-leaning parts of society.
On 11 December 1941, four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and three days after the United States declaration of war against Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany declared war against the United States, in response to what was claimed to be a "series of provocations" by the United States government when the U.S. was still officially neutral during World War II.