Intentionalist

• • Hitler's decision to direct economic policy from 1936 onwards towards preparing for large-scale war
  • Also went ahead with remilitarisation of Rhineland against the advice of his generals (breaching Treaty of Versailles)
• 1938- Hitler and Goering behind decision to push forward annexation of Austria.
• Hitler purged any generals that opposed him during the Blomberg-Fritsch Affair (who were too hesitant to make war preparations he demanded
• Hitler was central to events in Czechoslovakia (1938,1939)
• Hitler made decision to invade Poland in 1939
• Evidence of master plan

  • Nazi 25 Point Programme (1920), demanded abolition of Treaty of Versailles and land for Germany to colonise
  • Mein Kampf (1925), set out vision to create Lebensraum in Eastern Europe
  • second book (1928) Stupenplan, aiming to make Germany the world's dominant power
  • Four Year Plan (1936) got Germany reader for war
  • Hossbach Memorandum (1937) set out visions for Anschluss and destruction of Czechia