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Hitler’s foreign policy, 1933–39

While the events relating to Hitler’s foreign policy in the 1930s are well known, his motives for his actions continue to be debated by historians. Rob Quinn outlines Hitler’s key aims and actions

Source A Germany and its neighbours in the 1930s

In the election campaigns of the early 1930s, Hitler promised to make Germany great again after the humiliation of Versailles. He had laid out his aims to achieve this in his book Mein Kampf in 1924:

Reverse the Treaty of Versailles: to restore German territory and build up German armed forces.

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