Hitler's Foreign Policy

The Origins of the Second World War
A. J. P. Taylor |Norman Rich and Eberhard Jäckel | |
|Taylor rejects the Nazi claim that the formation of a Hitler | |
|government in January 1933 was a seizure of power | |
|He challenges the views of other historians as why and how | |
|Hitler came to power (Hitler was not made Chancellor because he| |
|would help German capitalists to destroy the trade unions, nor | |
|because he would give the German generals a great army, still | |
|less a great war ... He was expected to carry through | |
|revolutionary changes in either home or foreign affairs. The | |
|conservative politicians who recommend him expected Hitler to | |
|be a tame figurehead) | |
|"His foreign policy was that of his predecessors, of the |Taylor says that Hitler’s policy does differ from his |
|professional diplomats at the foreign ministry, and indeed of |predecessors since he shows no interest in Middle East, German |
|virtually all Germans" |colonies were almost forgotten and there was no attempt to |
| |revive the policies that were ruling Germany prior to 1914 |
|Taylor rejects the importance of the documents from the |Hitler