ABSTRACT

German race at its present peak … Germany’s future was therefore wholly conditional upon the solving of the need for space, and such a solution could be sought, of course, only for a foreseeable period of about one to three generations …

Germany’s problem could only be solved by means of force and this was never without attendant risk. The campaigns of Frederick the Great for Silesia and Bismarck’s wars against Austria and France had involved unheardof-risk … If one accepts as the basis of the following exposition the resort to force with its attendant risks, then there remain still to be answered the questions ‘when’ and ‘how’ …

Case I: Period 1943-45

After this date only a change for the worse, from our point of view, could be expected.