What made Hitler decide to attack all the european countries?

Question

I know what his objective was but what I'm concerned about is "what made him believe that his army was stronger than the reste of countries and that it would be possible.

How did he major his opponent's strength?

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Answer 1

Hitler was a Politician, not a General. He wasn't skilled in the art of war and so after the initial Blitzkrieg (lightening war) the momentum of the german army slowed down and was defeated by a series of attrition (wearing away gradually).

Answer 2

Emily P certainly hates the Catholic Church, and won't let anything like historical fact or truth get in the way of vindictive rubbish (although the failure to act or speak out by Pope Pius XII and the Vatican was morally reprehensible and remains controversial to this day).

In fact Hitler didn't attack Italy because he was allied with the fascist dicator Mussolini. After the fall of Mussolini, the Nazi's stationed trrops in Italy to try and keep the Allies from attacking Germany's southern borders.

As for why he thought he could get away with it, there is no logical reason why he thought he could get away with it.

Consider for example that every war since the start of the Industrial Revolution was started by the side that ultimately lost, and usually the side that started it attacked it's major trading partners. For example, take WW1, Germany's biggest trading partner in 1914 was France, Germany attacked France, Germany lost. You can take the same approach with almost any of the major conflicts since the Industral Revolution.

This means that a decision to start a war is never a logical decision, always an illogical decision, grand theft writ large.

Hitler (who by the way was an insane genocidal megalomaniac) felt that the 'great German people' needed living room, and this land would have to be taken from Eastern Europe.

When he as in in jail in the 1920's Hitler wrote 'Mein Kampf' (My Struggle) and laid out his plans exactly.

His plan for defeating Russia was to neutralise the Western Powers (France, Great Britain) with a quick domination of Western Europe, then expand the Third Reich into Eastern Europe by conquest.

Additionally, as stated by others, because of the policy of appeasement in the 1930's he had almost a decade after coming to power in 1933 to build up his armed forces, when the rest of Europe was trying to avoid war at almost any cost.

After he attacked the Sovet Union in 1941, he made many disatrous mistakes (Stalingrad anyone?), against the advice of trained and experienced military leaders, and thus squandered the lives of more than a million front-line battle hardened troops.

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Answer 3

There are many parts to this question as Hitler was not insane of suffer mentally ,halter was a opportunist from a child halter discovered art but was turned away and enjoyed classical music and a lot more.Hitler became infactuated with art ,gold,artifacts and the holy grail and the idea that the blonde headed german was pure and a master race and did not believe in race mixing as with race mixing there would be no more pure races left in the world .The jews are Jesus Christ's descendants and this is why hitler wanted to wiped the jews off the face of the earth, gasing them and burning them as if Hitler did feed the jews to germans his armys would not have run out of food in russia and die from the cold and would have won the war.The italians surrendered as they did not want there cities destroyed.

Answer 4

It was not Hitler's belief. It is a fact that the German Army is the strongest and most disciplined army in the world during World War II. It took all the combined forces of U.S., Great Britain and Russia to defeat Germany. Had these countries fought individually, there's no way that they could have won against Germany. It is the same with World War I. Germany alone fought against combined forces of Russia, France and Great Britain with later participation of the U.S. in the war.

France and Great Britain's attempts to appease Hitler was a sign and recognition that Germany's power is to be reckoned with. It was the logical diplomatic move at that time to avoid conflict with Germany. For, why would you appease somebody if you think you can beat him?.

Answer 5

Ideology aside, Hitler spent years building up his forces. He had little choice. After World War I, Germany was disarmed and in economic ruin. He had to put the people back to work improving roads, building ships and military vehicles (tanks, planes, subs, etc). Once he had all the machinery he thought he needed, his plans for world conquest became clear.

He was lucky in some aspects, especially in the timing of his movements and intelligence gathering to make the most of attacks.

As a previous answerer mentioned, the world did not want another war. Hitler basicly got his way by being a bully early on.

Answer 6

Hitler believed several things that encouraged him to invade Europe. 1. The German people were genetically superior to all other races on earth (herrenmenschen). 2. The German people had the right to expand their lands (lebensraum or room to live). 3. The Western powers were too tired from World War I to stop Germany from rearming. 4. He could play divide and conquer by making a treaty of peace with the Soviet Union and then attacking them after Poland and the Western European countries were taken. 5. Above all, it was his duty as a German to rid the world of Judaism and its derivative philosophies of Christianity and Marxism and any and all costs incurred in trying to accomplish this goal would earn him the undying gratitude of the German people.
He was right about 3 and 4. He believed he was right about all 5, but his complete faith in his correctness about item 5 impelled him to take extreme chances. The resulting massive loss of life in Europe in general and in Germany in particular was not what the German people as a whole would have wanted, but Hitler would not have been dissuaded even if he could have known the outcome in advance.

Answer 7

he took germany with 25,000 soldiers? these things are not as hard as you would imagine , a they took control of each country the inlisted white soldier they had the choice of join or die many took the first option .

a mental boost he had was the fact that he was backed by very influential people yet hitler himself was just a puppet like bliar and dubya , hitler was a member of the truly secret society and the fools society . dubya is a member of the scull and bones (order of death and the Bohemian grove , bliar is also a member of one of these organisation and thats the only way you can become primeinister or president but in the process they end up selling there souls and becoming puppets .

whats more interesting is history has and is repeating its self will anyone notice till its to late? millions realise yet billions dont.

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Answer 8

what made Hitlers armies so successful in WW2 was a new form of warfare that was used by Hitler. this type of warfare had never been seen or used before. Hitler introduced the Blitzgreig (lightening war) which consisted of massive air attacks, followeed by dense artillery attack and then the german panzer with its 88mm. shells went forward followed by, at the time the finest infantry soldiers in the world.

Answer 9

He made it stronger than one nation at a time; he did not invade and fight all nations at the same time; like he would start marking up Hungary then Romania, ……. France ... until UK and finally tattle Russia etc. He discovered that it was possible to grape wealthy from the subdued nations one by one and conquered them, while strengthening his stance. He did not fight all nations at once and used excuses as propaganda (give a country an ultimatum to return the land it took or something, like that before attacking); -he got half of Europe one country at a time, grape the wealth, created a strong grip there, started accusing the next nation stating that it was his last enemy..... after that he points to the next, just like that. Until Europe discovered that he was lying and wanted to choke them all up-- when it was too late; he was now controlling a large amount of wealth and trust from the German population whom he had dragged from poverty to riches. He also used these annexed means of production and wealth to build, enhance and sustain the large army.
Edit: when Hittler was making demands, Europe was feeling guilty about World war II, and I results that had led German to be very poor so they thought they were being careful, granting him some of the requests. This is a lesson to us - lets not feel over guilty way too sorry for terrorists and suicide bombers -they dont like us even if we grant them their requests.

Answer 10

Europe was so traumatized by the carnage of WW1 that the European leadership tried to do everything they could to prevent war, even giving a aberrant madman like Hitler concessions in hopes that he would just go away. So what happened is that Hitler thought that his 3rd Reich was truly invincible and pushed on. The historical truth is that France would've whupped Germany to a frazzle had they not been so stupid in the troop deployments. Czechoslovakia would've beat Germany as well. Nobody wanted war, everybody wanted to appease Hitler, and they backed themselves into the bloodiest war in human history. History does not repeat itself, idiots don't learn the first time.

Answer 11

All the information and reading I have done about Hitler, is that he was a very troubled man. What person in their right mind would have done the inexcusable torturing of people as he did?

I really think that we as human, should beware of behaviors like his. We need to protect our children; no matter what color or ethnicity they are. I admire those who fought against Hitler's reign and those who survived!

We must, as a people, make sure nothing like that ever happens again.

So to answer your initial question. He totally believed in what he was doing, and stood strong in his beliefs. He was arrogant and got away with what he wanted because no one had the strength to stand up to him.