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Did Hitler Want a World Dominion?

Milan HaunerView all authors and affiliations
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1. A.J.P. Taylor, The Origins of the Second World War (London 1967).'
2. Geoffrey Barraclough, 'Farewell to Hitler' in The New York Review of Books, 3 April 1975, 15.
3. Barraclough refers to the comprehensive analysis by Klaus Hildebrand 'Hitlers Ort in der Geschichte des preußisch-deutschen Nationalstaates' in Historische Zeitschrift, 217 (1974), 584-632.
4. Hitler's War Aims, vol. I (New York 1973), 11, 77.
5. Mein Kampf, Engl. Edition, (London 1969), 596-98.
6. Zeitgeschichtliche Kontroversen um Faschismus, Totalitarismus, Demokratie (Munich 1976), 81.
7. K. Heiden, Adolf Hitler. Das Zeitalter der Verantwortungslosigkeit (Zurich 1936) and Ein Mann gegen Europa, Engl. trans., (London 1939). H. Rauschning, Germany's Revolution of Destruction (London 1939) and Hitler Speaks (London 1939).
8. Hitler Speaks, preface. See also the most comprehensive review of literature on this topic which has hitherto appeared in English, by M. Michaelis, 'World Power Status or World Dominion? A Survey of the Literature on Hitler's Plan of World Dominion (1937-1970)' in The Historical Journal, 15 (1972), 331-60.
9. Hitler's War (London 1977). Irving's attempt to dissociate Hitler from the actual Final Solution order for the mass extermination of Jews, under the pretext that he has not found yet the crucial scrap of paper bearing Hitler's signature and date, has been unanimously dismissed by reviewers as a most irresponsible way of dealing with the Jewish Question.
10. E.g. W. Langer, The Mind of Adolf Hitler (London 1972).
11. 'Hitler's Concept of Lebensraum: The Psychological Basis' in History of Childhood Quarterly — The Journal of Psychohistory, 2 (1973), 187-258; 'Hitler Looks East' in ibid., 1 (1975), 85-102; Hitler Among the Germans, (New York 1976). The other, though less original, book from the US school of psycho-history which appeared recently is R.G.L. Waite, The Psychopathic God, Adolf Hitler, (London 1977).
12. Hitler — A Study of Tyranny (London 1952).
13. Hitler (London 1974).
14. H.R. Trevor-Roper, ed., Hitler's Table Talk, 1941-1944, (London 1953). A separate version is H. Picker, ed. Hitlers Tischgesprache im Fuhrerhauptquartier, 1941-1942 (Bonn 1951);; Hitlers Secret Book, (New York 1962).
15. Cf. A.J.P. Taylor in his televised talk 'Hitler as a Warlord' (BBC 1, 11 August 1976).
16. The more important contributions to the 'Taylor controversy' appear in E.M. Robertson's edited collection, The Origins of the Second World War (London 1971) and in the American edition with the same title edited by W.R. Louis (1972).
17. E.g. E. Jackel, Hitlers Weltanschauung — Entwurf einer Herischaft, (Tu bingen 1969); A. Kuhn, Hitlers außenpolistisches Programm (Stuttgart 1970).
18. Quoted from W.S. Churchill, The Second World War, vol. I, (London 1948), 244.
19. A.J.P. Taylor, English History 1914-1945 (London 1970), 519.
20. In Vierteljahrshefte fur Zeitgeschichte, 8 (1960), 121-33. See also intro duction to The Testament of Adolf Hitler (London 1961).
21. Hitlers Strategie. Politik und Kriegfuhrung 1940-41 (Frankfurt am Main 1965); 'Der Faktor Amerika in Hitlers Strategie 1938-41' in Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte . Supplement to the weekly Das Parlament of 11 May 1966; 'Japan und der Fall "Barbarossa" ' in Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau, 18 (1968), 312; 'Die "Endlosung" und das deutsche Ostimperium als Kernstuck des rassenideologischen Programms des Nationalsozialismus' in Vierteljahrshefte fur Zeitgeschichte, 20 (1972), 133 ff.; 'England in Hitlers außenpolitischer Konzeption' in Historische Zeitschrift, 218 (1974), 65-84; 'Deutschland 1936-1939' in O.Hauser, ed., Weltpolitik 1933-1939, vol. 1, and 'Die weltpolitische Lage 1939-1941: Deutschland' in ibid., vol. 2, (Gottingen 1973), 1975.
22. Vom Reich zum Weltreich. Hitler, NSDAP und koloniale Frage, 1919-1945, (Munich 1970); Foreign Policy of the Third Reich (London 1973); 'Zwischen Mythos und Moderne — Hitler in seiner Zeit' in Das Historisch-Politische Buch, 22 (1974), 33; see also footnote 3 Hitler, Deutschland und die Machte, (Dusseldorf 1976), 63-93.
23. Architekt der Weltherrschaft. Die "Endziele" Hitlers (Dusseldorf 1976).
24. R. Kuhnl, 'Der deutsche Faschismus. Nationalsozialismus und "Drittes Reich" in Einzeluntersuchungen und Gesamtdarstellungen' in Neue Politische Literatur, 15 (1970), 14.
25. H. Mommsen, 'National Socialism' in C.D. Kernig, ed., Marxism, Com munism and Western Society, vol. 6 (Freiburg 1971), 68.
26. M. Broszat, 'Soziale Motivation und Fuhrerbindung des National sozialismus' in Vierteljahrshefte fur Zeitgeschichte, 18 (1970), 408.
27. 'Innere Krise und Angriffskrieg 1938-1939' in F. Forstmeier und H.E. Volkmann, eds., Wirtschaft und Rustung am Vorabend des Zweiten Weltkrieges, (Dusseldorf 1975) 158-88 and Arbeiterklasse und Volksgemeinschaft (Dokumente und Materialien zur deutschen Arbeiterpolitik, 1936-1939) (Opladen 1975).
28. Op.cit., prologue.
29. Hitler, The Fuhrer and the People (London 1975).
30. See also K. Hildebrand, 'Geschichte oder "Gesellschaftsgeschichte" ' m Historische Zeitschrift, vol. 223/2 (1976), 353. and 'Weltmacht oder Untergang: Hitlers Deutschland 1941-1945', in O. Hauser, ed., Weltpolitik II, 1939-1945 (Gottingen 1975), 291.
31. Cf. Hildebrand's Foreign Policy in the Third Reich, footnote 22 above.
32. DGFP, D/VI, Nos. 195 and 433. Emphasized by Robertson, op. cit., 18. When Poland was attacked m 1939 the German General Staff had no operational military plans completed for the subsequent campaigns against Northern and Western Europe (cf. A. Hillgruber, Deutschlands Rolle in der Vorgeschichte der beiden Weltkriege (Gottingen 1967), 100.
33. Cf. footnote 5 above.
34. Taylor, op. cit., (London 1964), 16.
35. Cf. in Robertson (ed.); op. cit., 115.
36. Berenice Carroll, Design for Total War (The Hague 1968), 179-90, 262-67.
37. Die deutsche Industrie im Kriege, 1939-45 (Berlin 1954).
38. The German Economy at War (London 1965).
39. Hitlers Strategie — see footnote 21 above.
40. For further details see Hildebrand, Vom Reich zum Weltreich (cf. footnote 22 above).
41. M. Hauner, 'The Place of India in the Strategic and Political Considerations of the Axis Powers, 1939-1942' (unpubl. Cambridge PhD Diss. 1972).
42. Hitlers Zweites Buch, 123-30. Table Talk, 10 September 1941; Conversation Ciano-Hitler, 25 October 1941, in Hillgruber (ed.), Staatsmanner und Diplomaten bei Hitler, 1939-1941, vol. 1, (Frankfurt 1967), 632, Hitlers Strategie, 200, Faktor Amerika ..., 18, Deutschlands Rolle ..., 69, 123.
43. Conversation Oshima-Hitler, 3 January 1942, in Hillgruber, Staatsmanner und Diplomaten ..., 1942-1944, vol. 2, (Frankfurt am Main 1970), 41.
44. See footnote 41 above.
45. Thies; op. cit., 136-48.
46. Cf. B. Martin. Deutschland und Japan im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Gottingen 1969), 103.
47. E.L. Presseisen; 'Le racisme et les Japonais (un dilemme Nazi)' in Revue d'histoire de la deuxième guerre mondiale, No. 5 (1963); Conversation Antonescu- Hitler, 11 February 1942, in Hillgruber, Staatsmanner und Diplomaten ..., vol. 2, 48; G. Ciano: Diaries 1939-1943 (London 1947), entries for 22 and 25 February, 10 and I 1 March, and 24 April 1942; The Goebbels Diaries (London 1948), 94-95.
48. The von Hassell Diaries, 1938-1944 (London 1948), 221.
49. Table Talk, 8-10 September 1942, 17-18 September 1941, For Hitler's views on India, see M. Hauner, 'Les puíssances de l'Axe et la lutte de l'Inde pour l'indépendance' in Revue d'histoire de la deuxième guerre mondiale, No. 96 (1974).
50. See footnote 46 above.
51. F. Ruge, Der Seekrieg 1939-1945 (Stuttgart 1962), 27, M. Salewski, Die deutsche Seekriegsleitung, 1935-1941, vol. 1 (Frankfurt am Main 1970), 57; J. Dulf fer : Weimar, Hitler und die Marine (Dusseldorf 1973), 498.
52. Hitler Speaks, 15.
53. A. Bullock, op. cit., (London 1962), 774. A. Speer, Inside the Third Reich, (London 1971), 529, 588.

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