Hitlerovi govori: 1922-1939-1943. Prilog poznavanju geopolitičkih aspekata nacizma
Hitler's Speeches in the 1922-1939-1943 Period. A Contribution to the Study of Geopolitical Aspects of Nazism

Summary/Abstract: In analyzing Nazism, both as a doctrine and as political practice. Hitler’s speeches can be extremely helpful, pregnant as they are with content and notions from the sphere of one of the ’most German’ political doctrines — Nazi geopolitics; it is a guideline and vindication for territorial expansion, without which there can be no Nazism by definition. Some fundamental terminological questions are considered (Lebensraum. Balkanization), as well as the geopolitical aspects of the territorial situation of Germany, due to which, according to geopolitical analysts. Germany was prevented from developing into a world power. A special problem for Germany was its political-territorial environment, which it should oppose only by a ruthless assertion of power politics. Germany’s geopolitical position is important for Western Europe as well, for Germany can play the role of anticommunist bulwark, a matter of vital interest for the western powers; the same role is assigned also to the historic Austrian Mark. One of the crucial geopolitical notions is Hitler’s concept of 'blood and soil', i.e. of pure German racial stock on German soil, including the problem of new living space; new Lebensraum,in turn, implies war and conquest, and this is the aspect of Nazism which makes it disastrous and criminal on a global scale. For Hitler, the new Lebensraum lay in the East — in Russia and in the Transdanubian regions; this east-bound tendency Is in keeping with the German role of anticommunist bulwark.

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