On foreign policy, by contrast, one had to read between the lines. Hitler paid ritual lip-service to the Geneva disarmament negotiations, stressing his willingness even to accept the abolition of Germany’s army, provided there was general disarmament. However, he also stated that the highest mission of the national government was the ‘protection of the [national] right to life and thereby the restoration of the freedom of our Volk’.3 This was nationalist code for the opposite.
