JWST 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lebensraum, Jozef Tiso, Iron Guard
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Denmark generally known for saving its jewish population--not really so. Govt structure kept largely same after conquest. Italy, hungary, romania, etc. also fought w hitler, had their own goals of takeover. In vichy france, defeat was rebirth for nation. Stateless nations also were inspired by nazis. Croatians, slovaks got their own states w hitler"s help. Some collaboration rationalized, but was also an embrace of nazi ideology. German annexation of austria (anschluss) march 1938. Nazis believed it was destiny 2 bcome world power. But other eur leaders also wanted to control terr/ppl/resources. Point of diff--nazis target was europe, not africa/asia/americas. It was clear by 1935 to intl observers that hitler wanted to flex military muscle. Howev, @ this pt most germs fearful of war and doubtful of 3rd reich. But but 1939 germs were won over. Most austrians did not oppose nazi arrival. Legal implementation of antisemitism took weeks in aust (vs yrs in germ)