HIS103Y1 Lecture Notes - Mein Kampf, Munich Agreement, Eastern Settlement
Document Summary
- the national socialist german workers" party hitler promised everything to everyone; - germany did not lose wwi; germany was stabbed in the back; - hitler blamed in on jews & german bolsheviks; (most important opponents of germany) - sent to jail in 1923; wrote mein kampf. - new direction of germany: creation of lebensraum . - germany needed to grow, not to the west, but to the east; - the east was occupied by sub-humans; inferior races; (slavs, gypsies) - in fact, the east (ukraine) has the richest lands in europe; - coincidence: the east was ruled by the soviet union; - these were the objective of his foreign policy until he died; - pin down some dates as by what time he should achieve his objective; very tangible; - based on these two books, the whole nazi leadership were brought to trial against humanity; - russia was backward, weak communist state isolated by europe;
