I am basing this thread inspired mainly by the book "wages of destruction".
Adam tooze had argued Germany didn't have the size, population and the potential market of soviet Russia and USA.
his lebensraum project was an attempt to destroy Russia(populated by slavs)),take lands "which would be better used by Aryans" and match the growing potential of USA which does not need an empire like britain.
“The originality of National Socialism was that rather than meekly accepting a place for Germany within a global economic order dominated by the affluent English speaking countries, Hitler sought to mobilise the pent-up frustrations of his population to mount an epic challenge to this order. Repeating what Europeans had done across the globe over the previous three centuries, Germany would carve out its own imperial hinterland; by one last great land grab in the East it would create the self-sufficient basis both for domestic affluence and the platform necessary to prevail in the coming superpower competition with the United States.... The aggression of Hitler’s regime can thus be rationalised as an intelligible response to the tensions stirred up by the uneven development of global capitalism, tensions that are of course still with us today.”"
Hitler had an obscure second book where he discusses how to close the gap with usa.
any thoughts?
also what are the documented sources of inspiration for hitler/nazi racial world view?
how did allies japan and Italy fit in and the place envisioned for them? the place of the british empire?
for occupied countries?
Adam tooze had argued Germany didn't have the size, population and the potential market of soviet Russia and USA.
his lebensraum project was an attempt to destroy Russia(populated by slavs)),take lands "which would be better used by Aryans" and match the growing potential of USA which does not need an empire like britain.
“The originality of National Socialism was that rather than meekly accepting a place for Germany within a global economic order dominated by the affluent English speaking countries, Hitler sought to mobilise the pent-up frustrations of his population to mount an epic challenge to this order. Repeating what Europeans had done across the globe over the previous three centuries, Germany would carve out its own imperial hinterland; by one last great land grab in the East it would create the self-sufficient basis both for domestic affluence and the platform necessary to prevail in the coming superpower competition with the United States.... The aggression of Hitler’s regime can thus be rationalised as an intelligible response to the tensions stirred up by the uneven development of global capitalism, tensions that are of course still with us today.”"
Hitler had an obscure second book where he discusses how to close the gap with usa.
any thoughts?
also what are the documented sources of inspiration for hitler/nazi racial world view?
how did allies japan and Italy fit in and the place envisioned for them? the place of the british empire?
for occupied countries?
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