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Jäckel, E. (1972). Hitler’s Weltanschauung: A Blueprint for Power. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.

Weltanshauung means ‘worldview’, and the book is about (pg 7) ‘the widely held assumption that Hitler did not have a self-consistent Weltanschauung’. Jackel proves that he does from careful analysis of his statements, especially in Mein Kampf – this is according to the translator, Herbert Arnold. pg 27: Bullock in 1952 suggested he had a programmatic approach to foreign policy, which was rthen fully endorsed by Hugh Trevor-Roper as a reality. pg. 28: Demand for 1914 borders, end of ToV obvious from as early as 1923. As early as 13 November 1919 he had said “The misery of Germany must be broken by Germany’s steel. That time must come” – War was therefore self-evident from this point on as a means for achieving Germany’s aims. Pg 29: ‘These goals might change, but the means remained the same’ July 6 1920, concluded that Germany’s enemy was over the Rhine, France, not Italy, and that Aug 1, “Our basic demand is: Off with the Peace Treaty! To this end we must use everything we can, especially the differences between France and Italy, in order to win Italy over to our side”. Pg 40-1: ‘Above all, was his assumption really justified that Britain’s policy of a balance of powers made possible an Anglo-German coalition?’ – he wanted an alliance from te state@ 41: Hitler however wanted hegemony..’Having made this kind of judgment, the question becomes significant whether Hitler readily gave up or revised this outline of foreign policy for opportunistic reasons or whether he persisted in it. The answer is unequivocal. Even a cursory glance at the military and diplomatic history of the Third Reich demonstrates that this outline formed the guideline of those German policies which were defined by Hitler himself. Pg 44: According to Ribbentrop himself, the Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan on November 25, 1936 was designed to force “England to reach an agreement after all” – he said in January 1938 that the ACP was intended to forge alliances that would disrupt the balance of European power and encourage a settlement. ‘Wooing England had thus been replaced by threatening her, while the goal of gaining a free hand in Europe remained the same’....