Hitler`s Aims and Foreign policy

HITLER 'S AIMS AND FOREIGN POLICY

2006 When Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933 , he became the leader of a people beleaguered by the affects of World War One and the sanctions placed against their homeland at its conclusion This sentiment , coupled with Hitler 's charisma and apparent aim to embody continuity within the world theatre while providing opportunity for growth within German bs , lead to a favorable world view of his leadership in those early years of his reign . Other European nations even felt a kind of sympathy

for the hardships endured by the German people due to the constraints placed upon them by the Treaty of Versailles , especially when other portions of that Treaty were not being followed . What the German people , and the nations of the world , did not realize was that Hitler 's goals for the German nation came from a time nine years before he was to come to power , and were outlined in his autobiography , Mein Kampf . These goals would eventually lead to his defeat

History is divided as to the aims Adolf Hitler embraced while developing and employing his foreign policies . Some historians argue that Hitler made up his policies as he went along and thus had no cohesive aim Historian AJP Taylor said that Hitler .did not make plans for world conquest or anything else . He assumed that others would provide opportunities and that he would seize them (Taylor , 134 ) Taylor expounds that Hitler 's foreign policy , like Stresemann 's before him , was continental in nature . He did not wish to form a great battle-fleet , he did not wish for colonization outside of Europe and the Middle East was not a consideration . Hitler , says Taylor , realized that he had been soundly defeated by Western powers , but wished for the League of Nations to acknowledge that Germany had been victorious in the East (Taylor , 70

Other historians argue that , Although Hitler did not possess detailed blueprints for conducting Germany 's foreign policy , he did hold consistently to certain ideological beliefs (Shore , 14 ) His efforts , his writings and his speeches indicate that he had three main objectives : to abolish the Treaty of Versailles , to expand German territory and to defeat Communism (Clare ) In addition to these primary objectives , Hitler also spelled out eight additional principles for Germany 's foreign policy , including regaining military strength avoiding conflict with the French alliance that surrounded Germany , and avoiding forming alliances with states whose ideology was not consistent with that held by Germany (Shore , 14-15

By abolishing the Treaty of Versailles , the German motherland would be able to reunite with the portions of Austria , Czechoslovakia and Poland where many Germans were forced to live after being separated by national bs from their homeland . Hitler had no patience for the separation of the German people by the bs indicated by the Treaty , or the scaling back of what he saw as a superpower , stating , In an era when the earth is gradually being divided up...