Hitlers aims in foreign policy Flashcards
What was Hitler’s book called?
Mein Kampf - My Struggle
What did Hitler write in his book?
Foreign Policy aims - His political beliefs and aims
When did he write his book?
When he was in prison in 1924
What were his aims?
Gain 'Lebensraum' for Germany Destroy Communism Overturn the TOV Claim or Re-claim German Territory Race
What was Lebensraum?
Living space
Why did Hitler want more living space?
Argued that Germany was overpopulated and had the ‘right’ to claim more land in eastern europe
Where would the land be taken from?
Slavic nations like Poland and Russia
Why did Hitler want Slavic nations?
Hitler believed that Slavs were ‘untermensch’ or ‘subhuman’ suitable only for the enslavement by the racially ‘superior’ Germans
Why did Hitler want to destroy Communism?
He despised communism and saw communist Russia as a huge threat to Germany
What was the only way Hitler could defeat communism?
To defeat Russia (USSR)
Why did Hitler want to overturn the TOV?
He hated it
Believed that it humiliated and weakened Germany
He described the people involved as ‘November Criminals’ who had ‘stabbed Germany in the back’
How did he want to overturn the TOV?
By re-arming and reclaiming the territory that had been lost
What did Hitler think all German Speaking people should be?
Apart of a German Empire called ‘Reich’
How would Germany achieve Reich?
Control all territory inhabited by German speaking people including France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria and Baltic states
What did Hitler believe Germany were?
Aryans - A master race who deserved to dominate weaker races
