Von Blomberg, von Fritsch and von Neurath, however, did not believe that Great Britain and France would stand by idly and allow them to carry out the preliminary expansion of the Reich into Austria and Czechoslovakia. According to the accepted story it was their remarks at this meeting which showed Hitler how much they distrusted his reckless forward policy. If so, he was badly informed about the attitude of the Reaktion. In the light of his invariable method of dealing with men who were not prepared to submerge all critical faculties before his genius, the ‘Hossbach’ meeting is more likely to
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