Question

What were the forign policy of Adolf Hitler

Answer 1

Hitler’s foreign policy echoes Kaiser Wilhelm II’s Weltpolitik– concerned with giving Germany its “place in the sun,” I should think.

Germany was humiliated with the Treaty of Versailles and Hitler was concerned with undoing the terms that made Germany suffer so much. He was also elected on the promise of lowering unemployment level after The Great Depression, and he wanted to do so by giving Germany living space for resources (Lebensraum) and making Germany self-sufficient (Autarky). Because of this, his foreign policy is aggressive and expansionist in accordance with fascist ideology.

It didn’t appear that way at first, when Hitler demanded military parity in the Geneva Disarmament Conference, or when he took The Saar, or when Germany finally had its union with Austria on the principle of self-determination, or even when he demanded Sudetenland. He also started rearming Germany, but again, so did almost every other nation. But it quickly became clear after 1938, when Hitler invaded all of Czechoslovakia in violation of the agreements at Munich, that Hitler was not going to comply with international frameworks. A year later he invaded Poland after demanding Danzig, starting the Second World War.