Road to WW2 · TURNING POINT ·
Hossbach Memorandum (1937)
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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.
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- Rhineland and the Spanish Civil War (chapter 5 of Road to WW2)
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- The Road to War, 1931–1941
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