How close did Adolf Hitler come within his plan of world domination of the Third Reich?
I was watching a interesting movie the other night that opened some interesting insight into Germany during world war 2 The Raping of Europa. The look into the art thefts by the Nazis and how deep into this Hitler, Gerring, and other leaders were. It seemed they lost their intent to just have something to own. But to answer your question, there’s a saying “Hitler was stupid, the world was too big for him to conquer” He was stupid the way he ran the war. Gerring probably could have won against england if he had advised invasion over air attacks in the hope of blowing england into submission. But he underestimated a new technology called Radar. Then Hitler makes the biggest mistake of the war, which really was the icing on the cake. He invaded the one country who was his allie and turned them enemies. In fact Russia probably was the real reason Germany lost the war. I dont know if you know this, but prior to 1941 when Hitler decided he wanted the oil in the Caucassus mountains, Russia an
He could have controlled all of Western Europe had he not invaded Russia. Hitler got cocky, he thought Russia would fall quickly. He believed that Communism had sucked the soul out of Russia. The Russian people did not fight Hitler in the name of Communism. They fought him to protect their homeland. Yes, they lost millions of people. But they pushed his army all the way back to Berlin.
OK this is a good question for me to drum on about forever. But I’ll boil it down to two major points: Politically and Militarily Politically: No, he wasn’t close. Facism only spread to several countries clost to Germany in force, notably in Spain and Italy, whereas its top competitors, democracy and communism, both were spread worldwide, controlling the two superpowers. Not to mention, you can never beat an idea. Militarily: Yes, he was dangerously close. His chief mistake was being a jerk in liberated Soviet states. Considering the Red Terror and the Purges that Stalin committed, they were glad to be liberated from Stalin. They would have helped the Germans readily in Byelorussia or Ukraine, until Germany killed whole villages and razed entire cities to the ground (notably Warsaw). He made a major mistake in not supporting Rommel in North Africa, who held a key to the back door of the Soviet Union, through Iraq and Iran. He left the wounded British Empire alive, and instigated a two-
