ignotus wrote:AlgyTaylor wrote:Don't think Hitler wanted war with Europe either, certainly it wasn't in his masterplan to be at war with Britain or France (and later the USA, of course). He wanted to expand eastwards, hence attacking the Czech Republic & Poland ..
Yes that was the plan called Drang nach Osten, the major plan giving Germans (Aryans) living space (Lebensraum) on the east (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Russia...).![]()
The trip to the west would maybe never happen if France and Britain entered the war after attack on Poland 1. IX. 1939. But Hitler was pushing them too far (Saar, Sudetes, Austria...)!
I think by 1939 Hitler knew that Britain and France were against him, and it was a matter of when, not if.