Hitler

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will.” (6) He was therefore in no way immune to structural determinants,
but that still does not mean he did not have a well defined program. By the
sheer exertion of his will and the response it elicited inside Germany,
Hitler was able to impress his ideas on events rather than allow events and
realities to reshape his ideas. Hitler did have a foreign policy program
designed on continental conquest. He was influenced by unforeseeable
international events, and he logically took advantage of these when they
could in any way help Germany in its quest for living space.
Hitler had almost completely formulated a clear foreign policy program by
the first volume of Mein Kampf, however before this final accumulation of
ideas he went through a growing period in which he advocated many different
positions. The choices he made through this period illustrate his ability
to impose his ideas on changing circumstances, and his preference for
continental, not global expansion.(7) Hitler began his political view as a
revisionist...