ABSTRACT
The events of the summer of 1939 demonstrate Adolf Hitler's continuing preference for an understanding with England. The only change in Hitler's Englandpolitik after Munich was that he was prepared to go to war rather than give up or postpone any element of his plans for Lebensraum. Hitler's efforts to pressure England into acquiescing in his plans for expansion in central and eastern Europe in 1938 and 1939 were augmented by an intense anti-British propaganda campaign. Mussolini was mildly supportive of the aims of the Zionist movement and the idea of a Jewish National Home in Palestine during the 1920s and the early 1930s. Germany continued to reject Arab requests for material assistance for the Arab revolt in Palestine during the months immediately following publication of the Peel report. The Arab cause in Palestine, at best a convenient tool to influence events in Europe briefly in 1938 and 1939, remained apart from the interests of National Socialist Germany.
