ABSTRACT
This essay was first published as a review of Documents in German Foreign Policy 1918-1945, Series C, Vol. 4: The Third Reich: First Phase, April 1, 1935-March 4, 1936 (London, HMSO, 1962), in the Observer (30 December 1962), This essay, written after Alan Taylor's The Origins of the Second World War (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1961), echoes a theme in his book: 'Others provided the opportunity for Hitler: he duly took advantage of it.'
