Without the two year Nazi-Soviet joint aggression pact, Hitler may not have even invaded western Europe at all.
The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed 8/23/39 and held until 6/22/41.
While Germany thought it didn't have to worry about an enemy to its east, it took Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, France. From Czechoslovakia west to the Atlantic, every nation was either neutral, occupied by or allied with the Nazis. Only then did he turn on his Soviet ally and launch the holocaust.
First the holocaust started before 1939.........Kristallnacht took place in 1938.
Secondly there is the German concept of Lebensraum. Hitler actively sought Lebensraum ("living space") for the German people. That included Germans in Romania, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia.
Thirdly, he also consider the Nordics of Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Belgium to be Aryans and should be part of the German empire.
Finally, his strategy for German domination of Europe was pretty much laid on in his book, Mein Kampf. |
