Foreign Policies
Did Hitler achieve his all his aims?
Adolf Hitler aimed to destroy the hated Versailles settlement, build up the army, recover lost territory such as the Saar and the Polish Corridor, and bring all Germans within the Reich by creating Lebensraum. Hitler wanted the Polish Corridor because it would mean the country would be divided in two and there were lots of Germans there like in Sudetenland. He wanted Rhineland because he wanted to destroy the Versailles agreement. He wanted Austria because he was an Austrian and there were 8million German speakers there. His aims occurred due to Nazi ideology that the treaty was bad, Aryan race was the best, communism was bad and Jews were bad. He achieved all of his aims because he had destroyed the Versailles settlement by invading Rhineland in 1936, invading Poland in 1939 and breaking the Anschluss by invading Austria in 1938. This meant that all that Hitler wanted he got without any hindrance because Britain only wanted peace so they did not react and France did not want to start another war as they were still recovering. This also allowed Hitler to gain a lot of confidence.
