Hitler's Foreign Policy

Hitler aimed to...

  • Destroy the Treaty of Versailles by...
    • Violating the Disarmament clauses
    • Remilitarising of the Rhineland
    • Retaking lost territory
  • Create a greater Germany by...
    • Uniting all German-speaking people (some in territories under other countries) into the Reich
    • Extending borders so that states that had mostly German people were part of Germany (eg. parts of Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland)
  • Eradicate Communism by invading Russia
  • Increase territory by obtaining Lebensraum or “living space”
    • To have more land for agriculture
    • By invading territory mostly in Poland and Soviet Russia for living space
  • Build a European Empire with the aim for Germany to become the most powerful empire of Europe, and even maybe the world


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