Hitler's Foreign Policy

Hitler’s foreign policy was very aggressive, it included that the Treaty Of Versailles should be demolished, That all German speaking countries should be united (Pangermanism), Germany should increase its borders (Lebesnraum), Communism was to be made illegal and these are only a few examples from his policy. Firstly, Hitler broke the Treaty Of Versailles as he stopped paying reparations, another example of when Hitler broke the Treaty is when he remilitarised the Rhineland. The remilitarisation was strictly forbidden in the Treaty but when Hitler did it, Britain said his actions were justified. The Treaty also read the Hitler could not join with Austria, because Italy, France & Britain feared a larger, more powerful Germany. March 9th 1938, Hitler sent his armies into Austria, to restore ‘Law & Order’. The Austrian people welcomed his troops. After his troops were successfully inside Austria, he called for a an Anschluss which was probably rigged. Austrian people voted 99% in favour of uniting with Germany. As well as breaking the Treaty the unification was also an example of Lebesnraum & Pangermanism. This policy was aggressive and the British Prime Minister at the time, Chamberlain, did not challenge this infact he appeased Hitler to please him and hope that he would not attack Britain, this only made Hitler more confident. In the end Chamberlain saw that his policy was failing after Hitler ignored the Munich conference and invaded all of Czechoslovakia. So Chamberlain realised Hitler could not be appeased and he saw that Poland would be the next target of the Nazis, so he promised the Polish government that if Hitler invaded Poland that Britain and France would support Poland. In 1939 Hitler did invade Poland and Britain declared war on Germany, starting the Second World War.

Britain and France’s Policy Of Appeasement

Appeasement was a new idea in Europe, it was a theory that aggressive dictators could be appeased by giving them a little bit of what