Why Hitler want to quonquer the world
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Answer:
NO
Explanation:
No. That is basically propaganda, which was very effectively promoted by the Allies to build up support for the war. One of the very first examples, produced by Hollywood (which put out quite a number of propaganda or “patriotic” films), was Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator”. The closing speech is something of cinematic legend (of course, Chaplin was also an open Communist too). Another early spoof citing Hitler’s desire to take over the world was The Three Stooges’s “You Natzy Spy”, which predated Chaplin’s movie by nine months. Of course, many other films, both in the US and the UK, reinforced this notion.
The truth of the matter was that Hitler was primarily interested in the east, especially Russia and the Ukraine. He not only wrote and spoke about Germany’s need for “Lebensraum” or living space, which lay to the east, he also discussed the need to destroy Communism. His originally intention was to bypass Poland in a north/south pincher invasion and over run the Soviet Union.
He had hoped that the the UK would join him (given Britain’s longstanding hatred of Communism and strong dislike for Stalin); at the least, he hoped that the UK wouldn’t interfere and would keep a tight rein on France, which had a mutual assistance agreement with Stalin (meanwhile, Hitler had a mutual non-aggression pact with Poland). Had Hitler been successful, it’s unlikely that he would have made any additional territorial demands.
As for his two main allies, Italy and Japan, Hitler was less concerned with their objectives, especially Japan, which had professed to create a Pan-Asian economic partnership with Japan at the center of course. The idea was to secure resources, which Japan was short of, to build its industrial empire and to reduce dependence on the West. As Japan was on the other side of world, it’s policies where seen as their own while basically keeping Germany posted on an major decisions.
As for Italy, Mussolini was apparently serious about trying to recreate a Roman Empire. I don’t think Hitler thought Mussolini was all that serious about literally creating such an empire. However, the Italians had a large and modern air force and navy. Mussolini had boasted that he would created a “Mediterranean Lake” and in that, I think Hitler believed him and hoped that Italy could secure his southern underbelly.
However, as Hitler quickly found out, the Italians were poorly trained, and even worse led. As a result, Hitler found himself having to bailout his Italian ally far more often than he intended. Naturally, this resulted in expending badly needed resources and redirecting troops and equipment needed elsewhere.
As for Russia, things didn’t work out there either. Poland didn’t give of the Danzig Corridor, which had belonged to Germany until given to Poland as a result of the Versailles Treaty, which forced Hitler to make a deal with his nemesis. It also resulted in France and the UK coming to Poland’s aid. This, in turn, resulted in Germany having to take out France and the British troops in France. But to do that, he had to secure the Lowlands. Later, he needed to occupy Denmark and Norway, and so on. Not the war he envisioned, nor the results obviously. Even with this turn of events, Hitler’s objective never left Europe.
Explanation:
Any discussion of Hitler’s alleged ‘programme’for achieving world dominion should be preceded by an attempt at terminological clarification. ‘World Dominion’ or ‘World Domination’ obviously convey something different from ‘World Power’; all the same and all grammatical incongruities notwithstanding, both terms are often used as synonyms.1 To illustrate the point: there is no need to elaborate further on the statement that Hitler wanted the Third Reich to achieve or regain world power status. This has never been in controversy, but in the early and mid-1980s Hitler’s foreign policy already gave rise to a widespread tendency abroad to interpret his ‘real’ aims as the ‘achievement of world domination’. Hitler’s often quoted dictum ‘Deutschland wird entweder Weltmacht oder überhaupt nicht sein’ should — so it was conjectured — be plainly read to mean: Germany must achieve world domination or it will perish.2
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