Hitler’s Foreign
Policy 1933-35
Mein Kampf
• Hitler laid out his plans for Germany
in the opening pages of his book
written in prison, he states
• “German-Austria must return to the great German mother country….
One blood demands one Reich…Only when the Reich borders include
the very last German, but can no longer guarantee his daily bread, will
the moral right to acquire foreign soil arise from the distress of our
people”
Hitler’s Aims for Germany
Hitler had 4 basic aims for Germany
•Tear up the Treaty of Versailles, this in many
German’s opinion was the major cause of the
hardships they suffered.
•All German speaking people would once again
live in an enlarged Germany, this could only ever
be achieved by the retaking of land lost through
Versailles.
•The creation of a German (Aryan) master race.
•Lebensraum – more living space for Germans to
expand, again this would mean the taking of
countries. Hitler was especially interested in
Eastward expansion, Russia in particular had
Hitler’s Foreign Policy
The foreign policy pursued by
Hitler, in order to be successful
required to be
• AGGRESSIVE
• EXPANSIONIST
• RACIST
Aggressive
• Hitler planned to be aggressive in his actions.
• He demanded a complete review of the T.OV
• He demanded the return of the Polish
Corridor
• He demanded land and colonies which German
people could be settled.
• “State boundries are made by man and changed by
man”
Expansionist
• Hitler planned to have all German speaking
people living in a German border
• To do this meant the reclaiming of land
lost to the Treaty
• Hitler would expand his borders by
retaking Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland
• He also wanted to take Russia!
Racist
• Hitler wanted to create a German
“master race”
• He believed other races especially
the Slavs, Russians, Ukraine's and
Jews were “Untermenschen” inferior
to Germans
• Between 1933 and 1935 Hitler’s
foreign policy progressed little