seems clear that the pressure on Hitler to advance was created by these internal conditions as much as by his ego or his Weltanschauung. He needed a foreign success to preserve his aura and bind the people to him as the saviour of Germany as much as he needed Czechoslovakia for its economic and strategic position. For the same reasons he needed ideological enemies. It was an ever-tightening spiral that could lead only to increased internal repression and foreign adventures. And the tighter this spiral became the more he had to rely on Himmler.
