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Title: What was the nature of Hitler


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What was the nature of Hitlers Foreign Policy
1936 to 1938?
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Key themes
  • Was the Hossbach memorandum significant?
  • The Anschluss and its consequences.
  • The Sudeten crisis.
  • The Munich conference and Agreement.

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Hossbach memorandum, 5th November 1937
  • The aim of German policy was to make secure and
    to preserve the racial community and to enlarge
    it There remain still to be answered the
    questions of when and how.
  • Hitler, quoted in the Hossback memorandum
  • Three case studies quoted aims?
  • Divided interpretations Taylor vs. Adamthwaite

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Anschluss
  • Forbidden (Article 80 T. of V.) Union with
    Austria.
  • Personal commitment 1st page Mein Kampf
  • How did he proceed with Anschluss?
  • Opposition within Austria
  • Failed putsch 1934 Italian change 1935
  • Invasion 1938

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Sudeten Crisis
  • Czechoslovakia as obstacle to Eastern expansion
  • Largest minority Germans of Sudeten
  • Sudeten Party 1935
  • Importance of GB France

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Munich Conference
  • 29-30 September 1938
  • Czechs not represented
  • All German majority territories - Germany by
    stages (international supervision)
  • Betrayal of Czechoslovakia - doomed

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Task
  • Questions on Hossbach memorandum - Traynor pages
    293-5
  • Outline notes on Anschluss
  • (Traynor pages 295-297 or Collins pages 350-352)
  • Outline notes on the Sudeten crisis
  • (Collins page 352)
  • You have todays lesson and half of tomorrows
    (bring textbook)
  • We will discuss interpretations tomorrow
  • Unfinished notes must be done for prep
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