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Question: What was Hitler's Foreign Policy!? Why was it aggressive!? and what was he trying to achieve!?
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Well firstly it has to be understood that Hitler was a supreme opportunist!. He had long term goals in mind, and these affected the nature of the short-term moves, but he didnt have a specific plan!.
You can divide his goals into two sections: short term and long term!.

Hitler's short term goals included:
The undoing of the Treaty of Versailles - included cancellation of reparation repayments, a right to military equality with Germany's neighbours, and the recovery of territory taken from Germany
Bringing together all German speaking people into the Reich, creating a GrossDeutschland - this would explain why he invaded Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland, as all three of these countries contained German speaking peoples!.
Economic sufficiency - would also be achieved through the creation of a GrossDeutschland

His long term goals ultimately came down to territorial expansion (or lebensraum) to the east, and the destiny of the master race!.

The nature of these goals meant that Hitler's foreign policy would be aggressive, as invading and taking over other countries will always be seen as aggressive!. But that was what he was trying to achieve, and his long term goals were mentioned throughout his book Mein Kampf

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Hitler's foreign policy was quit simple!. Too make a long story short, he want to have world domination!. The Aryan people of Nordic/North European decent were going to be the masters of the universe with everyone else either being exterminated or slaves to the aryan people!. Hitler was going to make a Lebunstrum or living space in Europe where the Aryan people would live and eventually spread out towards the rest of the world!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

He wanted to unite all Germans in one state, and get 'Lebensraum' for his people!. The latter is a typical Nazi term, but it roughly means that he wanted a larger area of which the Germans would reap the profits!.

For the first (reunification) he wanted to unite Germany and Austria, regain the Saarland, get the Sudeten land from Czechoslovakia, western Prussia from Poland and the Memel area of Lithuania!.

For the latter, he intended to conquer large parts of the lands of Eastern Europe, and basically enslave the local Slavic population!.

Other political goals were the undoing of the restrictions in the Versailles treaty, severely restricting the German military and forcing it to make reparation payments to the WWI victors!.

But, as said by others, he was very much an opportunist, who would take whatever he thought he could get away with when it was there for the taking!. And who liked to play a political game of high stakes poker - and because of his willingness to do so, often won!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It's all in Mein Kampf!.

Everything he wrote about, he actually turned history to doing a decade later!.

The main reason for aggression is probably because the Treaty of Versailles (which ended World War 1) took much of what Germany used to be, away, and created Poland while surrendering land in western Europe as well (France)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Hitler's excuse of 'Living Space' was used to justify a bid for territorial conquest and racial subjugation which caused the deaths of over 43 million people and the utter destruction of his own country!.

Aggressive to say the least! Www@QuestionHome@Com

He wanted to establish the Third Reich, which was to last a thousand years, and in which the Germans would rule the world because they were the Master Race!.

Aggressive is an under-statement!.
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