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Origins of WW2 (Hitler ('33 - '38 (Planning for armed aggression?,…

- - - - appeared willing to negotiate
      - expansion an expression of self determination:
        Saar voted to become German
        Sudetenland overwhelmingly German
        Austria mostly German
      - Oct '38 aims achieved peacefully
    - - issued threats
      - left LoN in '33
      - reintroduced conscription
      - intimated would use force against Czech
  - - - foreign policy goals reiterated throughout '20's & 30's
      - hillgruber: clear intentions based on ideology - 2 wars; 1 distracting war in W; 1 long cherished race war in E
      - AJP Taylor: Hitler was opportunist; general war a mistake due to diplomatic blunders
  - - - exploiting French weakness
      - relying on GB reluctance for war
- - - - Maintained desire to see elms of ToV changed
      - Wright:'hard-line stance to appease right wing elms?
- - - - WW1 casualty numbers & demographic deficit
      - arms comp & alliance led to WW1
      - ToV wronged Ger
      - fear of aerial bombardment
    - - Defence stronger than attack - Fr relied on Maginot Line
      - GB threats to empire - appease one potential en
      - artificial barriers through over estimation of German forces
    - - Fr in depression in '30's
      - GB over-accelerating re-armament could undermine export-based ec
  - - - encourage Fr unwillingness to fight
      - masked Hitlers aggressiveness to public
      - discouraged SU from taking threat seriously
      - rearmament could have been accelerated
- - - - Koch
        
        needed to secure resources & becoming threatened by Russ
        
        Invasion of GB not poss - Russ GB's last hope