ABSTRACT
At first, Hitler's activities appeared to be concerned primarily with the reversal of the Versailles Treaty's provisions and of the incorporation in the Reich of lands inhabited by ethnic Germans. Thus was the Rhineland remilitarised, Austria seized, the Czech Sudetenland absorbed and Memel occupied (the Saarland became part of Germany by choice). But when Nazi policy became directed towards the SUbjugation of the entire Czechoslovak state, consisting of mainly non-German peoples, the picture also became one of militarist expansionism. The strike against Poland which marked the beginning of the Second World War, confirmed the later pattern.
