Hektor wrote: ↑Fri Sep 26, 2025 9:53 am
The 'Table Talks' seem to be the source for plenty of apocryphal rubbish put into the mouth of Adolf Hitler....
Reality is of course more nuanced then that. And rest assured there would have been discussions on how the post-war political landscape should have looked alike. As for settling 'the East' with Germans, that's clearly a phantasy, as they hardly had enough Germans to settle territories talking back from the interbellum polish state.
In fact, until its maximum expansion in 1942, the German government only annexed Luxembourg and some areas northeastern of the General Government of Polish regions occupied by the USSR. In a statement to the German High Command in January 1941, in preparation for Barbarossa, he emphasized that the USSR would serve as a resource but should not be annexed to the Reich. If there was to be any colonization of Slavic lands, it would be for the country's elite, not hordes of Germans to reduce the 140 Germans per square kilometer.
Hektor wrote: ↑Fri Sep 26, 2025 9:53 am
The 'Table Talks' seem to be the source for plenty of apocryphal rubbish put into the mouth of Adolf Hitler....
Reality is of course more nuanced then that. And rest assured there would have been discussions on how the post-war political landscape should have looked alike. As for settling 'the East' with Germans, that's clearly a phantasy, as they hardly had enough Germans to settle territories talking back from the interbellum polish state.
In fact, until its maximum expansion in 1942, the German government only annexed Luxembourg and some areas northeastern of the General Government of Polish regions occupied by the USSR. In a statement to the German High Command in January 1941, in preparation for Barbarossa, he emphasized that the USSR would serve as a resource but should not be annexed to the Reich. If there was to be any colonization of Slavic lands, it would be for the country's elite, not hordes of Germans to reduce the 140 Germans per square kilometer.
The Myth of annexation seems to stem from extrapolation on the "Lebensraum" terminology, which isn't really understood by those that believe the cartoon version of World War Two.
