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In the
course of a discussion in the Chancellery on November 5, 1937,
documented in the records of Hitler’s military adjutant, Colonel
Friedrich Hossbach, Hitler presented the military and political
leadership with his goals. In Hitler’s thinking, Germany’s
cramped confines and growing population made territorial expansion
necessary. From the intellectual standpoint, his remarks were an
extension of the imperialist foreign policy that he had revealed in Mein
Kampf. In the realities of 1937, they could be construed as a
clear-cut intention to go to war in the near future.
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