04 History: Hitler's Aggressive Foreign Policy

Hitler’s Foreign Policy :

1. to create a Greater Germany

   → unite all Germanic people under one country :

   • Germany

   • Austria

   • Sudetenland

2. Lebensraum

   → to expand Germany Eastwards

   • Poland

   • Baltic States

   • USSR

3. Eliminate race enemies

   → destroy:

   • Jews

   • Gypsies

   • Communists

Hitler’s policies drove the world to war.

→ all his policies (domestic and foreign) was geared towards these aims.

• there’s no way his economic recovery could have been maintained without German expansion.

There was only one problem:

• none of the countries would allow Germany to simply get her way.

  → eventually lead to war. (Road to War)