Hitler's foreign policy

Government policy for dealing with other nations 

Needs discussion and willingness for mutualism

Goals

• Lebensraum

  • Need for space to build a great German state (pure blood)

  • Military expansion

  • Reunite with Austria, rearmament of Rhineland as buffer

  • Historical basis

    • Wanted to take back land (self-sufficient)

• Wanted Autarky

  • • Make Germany self-sufficient

    • Produce own food, materials, reduce trade

    • Four-Year Plan

    • Relied on: 

      • Norway for iron ore

      • Czechoslovakia for metals

      • Ukraine for wheat

      • Romania for oil

• Racial Purity

  • Bring all Germans under Reich, get rid of others

  • Social Darwinism - Non-Aryans removed

  • USSR destroyed and threat of Communism removed