In Hitler’s reading, inequality was manifested at both the national and the class levels, and the two were connected. Germany as a whole was subject to an international ruling class, which had divided Germans from each other. This meant that Germany had been left behind in the global distribution of territory, with less space per person than any other major European state. The implication was clear: Germany might own large tracts of Europe, but in global terms it was still poor. It did yet not have enough, and the combination of British resistance and a likely future American intervention
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