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Hitlers main goals of the foreign policy:

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Hitlers main goals of the foreign policy:

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To destroy the Treaty of Versailles

To create a "greater Germany" or großdeutschland by uniting German speakers and creating Lebensraum (living space, taken from the East)

Make Germany self sufficient

Killing Jews

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In November 1937, Adolf Hitler convened a pivotal meeting with his most trusted military advisors, meticulously recorded by Colonel Hossbach in what would be dubbed the Hossbach Memorandum. Within this crucial document, Hitler unfolded his grand design to unsettle the nations of Austria and Czechoslovakia. His strategy, as articulated in detail, involved a calculated blend of internal subversion and external coercion. Hitler aimed to exploit existing divisions within these countries while simultaneously exerting external pressure to weaken their stability. This strategic approach laid the groundwork for his ambitions of territorial expansion and domination in Europe.

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Rearmament was the first step of aggression in his foreign policy. Britain, Italy and France formed the Stresa front in fear of German expansion. However, Britain formed the Anglo-German naval agreement with the Germans. Under this agreement Germany would be able to have the same amount of naval ships as Britain. Though France deeply objected this, nobody wanted to go against Britain, and Britain wanted good relations with Germany. Thus, Germany was allowed to expand its military rapidly. Introducing conscription, Luftwaffe and remilitarising the Rhineland. This allowed Germany to increase power and boosted morale.

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Hitler's Foreign Policy - Using Fear and the Rhineland

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Hitler's Foreign Policy - Using Fear and the Rhineland

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Since many countries feared another war Hitler continuously risked a war to achieve his goals, taking advantage of the fear of another devastating conflict. Since Hitler's main goal was to take down the Treaty of Versailles he decided to take back certain things. One of the things Hitler did was remilitarise the Rhineland in 1936. In March of that year Hitler brought 10,000 troops into the Rhineland. The League condemned this but didn't do anything else, busy with the Abyssinian crisis. Though France wanted to take action, Britain felt pity for Germany, allowing Hitler to continue to break the Treaty of Versailles, and France would not do anything without being backed up by Britain.

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Following Hitler's plan of creating a Grossdeutschland, he also wanted to unite Germany and the Sudetenland. Sudetenland was a German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia that included 3 million Germans. Sudeten Germans complained they were discriminated against, and Konrad Henlein (their leader) demanded to be united with Germany, and he was  encouraged and supported by Hitler sending troops to the border.

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Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938

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Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938

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In 1938, Hitler encouraged the Austrian  Nazi Party to demand union with Germany (internal disruption), and he demanded the  Austrian Chancellor legalize the Nazi Party and appoint Dr. Seyss-Inquart minister of the  Interior (outside pressure). The Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Schuschnigg was forced to agree, but  decided to hold a plebiscite on a union with Germany, knowing the citizens of Austria would  reject it. But Hitler acted before this could take place, and forced the resignation of  Schuschnigg, and took over Austria.

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The Sudetenland was a mostly German speaking part of Czechoslovakia, with a population of 3 million Germans. Discriminated in their own country, their Sudetenland leader Konrad Henlein demanded to be united with Germany. This was supported by Hitler who sent troops to the border. France wanted to answer directly to the German threats, while Britain was much more cautious. The Munich Conference was organised, Mussolini, Hitler, Chamberlain and Daldier all in attendance to decide the fate of Sudetenland. However, neither Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union were invited. All four leaders agreed that the Sudetenland must be handed to the Germans.

With the gain of Sudetenland Hitler's ammunition grew as it contained most of the heavy industries and military defenses in Czechoslovakia. He had forced Europe on the brink of war, and bent the wills of other nations. It proved that he had the power to expand Germany forward and had captured the hearts of German citizens.

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I believe that Hitler's foreign policy was only half responsible to the outbreak of the second world war due to. the following reasons.

In mein kampf Hitler wrote about how he didnt want to invade western europe including the german populated areas such as alsace lorraine, Hitler prefered France and britain to be German allies and hitler showed appreciation for the British Empire being an aryan empire even going so far as saying British rule in India would be held up as a model for how the Germans would rule Eastern Europe.

The true reason that the second world war broke out was due to french and british policies of appeasement, they thought that if they could delay a war long enough for them to remilitarize then they would be able to defeat Germany, this didn't workout however due to superior German industry allowing germany to remilitarise much faster and more effectively, so in a way one could say that french and british foreign policy was to blame for the outbreak of ww2

Hitler and the Nazi party had many expansionist goals for Germany, this definitely showed in their foreign policy, The Nazi's often took risky manuvers such as the remilitarisation of the rhineland or the anschluss of austria into German and came out successful in these to fear and intimidation against opposing nations, when Germany was rejected the polish corridor and danzig from poland they declared war but, leading to france and britain joining forces against them and starting the second world war.

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R- rearmament & remilitarisation

U- uniting all German speaking peoples- Grossdeutschland

T- territories from the east- Lebensraum (living space)

T- tear up the Treaty of Versailles.

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Hitler reviews a parade celebrating the reintegration of the Saar region into Germany. Saar territory, Germany, March 1935.

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Hitler remilitarised the Rhineland on 7 March 1936 in explicit violation of both the treaties of Versailles and Locarno. Within days, it became apparent that no nation was willing to restore the status quo by force. To politicians of the day, the Rhineland simply was not an important issue.

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The Foreign Ministers of Russia and Germany signed the Navi-Soviet Pact. This was a decision that was unexpected as it was a ten year long no-aggression pact. It would allow Hitler to invade Poland without Russia intervening, secretly they also agreed to divide Poland amongst themselves. It seemed like the two countries were working as together, Hitler actually used the pact as protection and a way to allow him to focus on fighting Britain and France is the west, without worrying about Russia in the east. Russia signed as this allowed Stalin to prepare his armies for war, since a war was inevitable.

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While Hitler's foreign policy was certainly to blame for many of the events that occured in WW2, Britain and France also played a big role conciliating so that they wouldn't have to suffer the consequences of Germany's actions. Although Britain had a lot of power and means which could have been used to possibly prevent WW2, instead, they let Hitler get away with a lot his evil action because of the appeasement policy (Britain foreign policy) that they had. This policy meant that Germany was able to achieve a lot of things without any consequences. This was mainly because Britain was scared that if they upsetted Germany, they would make allies with the soviet communists, which was the last thing Britain or Germany wanted. Germany had been getting away with these actions for a long time and no one knew if Germany would be held accountable, however many other countries in Europe were doing similar things such as remilitarisation which wasn't questioned by others. The turning was when Hitler invaded Poland, in which Britain stepped up and declared war on Hitler September 3rd 1939.