... he knew it was essential to form alliances with Britain and Italy. His aim was for the Allies and victors of the First World War to acknowledge that Germany had been triumphant in the aforementioned conflict.3 McDonough disregards these ideas about foreign policy in saying, "the great difficulty...is to decide whether Hitler's aims, as outlined in Mein Kampf, were really a clear blueprint for foreign-policy action or a pipe dream".4 Hitler knew that in order to gain strength as a great European power he had to overturn the Treaty of Versailles. To achieve this goal, the focus of Hitler's foreign policy was Lebensraum in Eastern Europe.5 Lebensraum was the notion of expansion of the German Empire and Hitler felt that an attack on the Soviet Union would help greatly in acquiring land. The 1937 Hossbach Memorandum states, "the aim of German policy was to make secure and preserve the racial community ...

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