Hitler and the Road to War At that time Germany was becoming too populated for its stability. Its population had reached such a level that Germany could no longer feed and support it without huge imports. In any case it lacked resources and with the further deduction of land after Versailles this became even more of a problem. When Hitler laid out his plans, in his book; Mein Kampf, demonstrated an understanding of the problems Germany faced. He wrote what he believed was their solution; "Germany must find the courage to bring together our people and their strength to advance along the road that will lead this people from their present narrow living space to a new land and a new soil, and thus also free them from the danger of disappearing from the earth or to serve others as a slave nation. solve internal problems, make it militarily stronger, and help Germany become economically self-sufficient. However, the way to do this, then, was to expand through smaller nations (colonies) such as the English and the French However, Hitler thought differently; Because it is not in colonial acquisitions that we must see the solution to this problem, but exclusively in the acquisition of territory for settlement, which will enhance the area of the motherland, and therefore not only retain the new ones settlers in the most intimate community with the land of their origin, but ensures to the entire area those advantages that reside in its unitary size. Between the years 1933 -1937 Hitler began to make bets, bets that paid off, bringing an unaware and naive Europe ever closer to the war. In 1933 Hitler ordered the German delegates abandon the Geneva disarmament conference with the excuse that Germany was already present
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