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Turning point · The Road to War, 1931–1941

The Hossbach memorandum

Map showing The Hossbach memorandum — The Road to War, 1931–1941
TURNING POINT · THE ROAD TO WAR, 1931–1941

5 Nov 1937 — In a four-hour secret conference, Hitler tells his service chiefs Germany must seize living space by force, by 1943–45 at the latest. His adjutant’s minutes become a key exhibit at Nuremberg.

This is one scene of Chapter 5 — The Rhineland Bluff and the Spanish Rehearsal in The Road to War, 1931–1941.

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