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Globalization led Hitler Wildenthal, German Women, 177; Sandler, “Colonizers,” 436.

The inevitable presence Land as limit of science: Second Book, 21; also Mein Kampf, 282. Hitler made the point directly to Roosevelt in his Reichstagsrede of April 28, 1939; Franz Neumann stressed this in his Behemoth, 130.

If German prosperity Bleak: Second Book, 105. Racially pure: Mein Kampf, 282. Younger and healthier: Second Book, 111. For a contemplation of the importance of myths of the soil in the whole history of mass killing and ethnic cleansing, see Kiernan, Blood and Soil. On the word Lebensraum see Conrad, Globalisation and the Nation, 61.

While Hitler was writing Cf. Arendt, Origins, 353, 469; and Smith, “Weltpolitik,” 41.

The twentieth century See Longerich, Davon, 160–61. More beauty: Ziegler, Betting on Famine, 263. Goebbels was discussing the goals of the invasion of the USSR: “für einen voll gedeckten Frühstücks-, Mittags-, und Abendtisch.” Cited in Koenen, Russland-Komplex, 427. For an admirable comparative history, see Collingham, Taste of War.

“One thing the Americans have” American spaces: Table Talk, 707. See Guettel, “German South-West Africa,” 535; Simms, Europe, 339, 343.

All that remained Europe itself: Mein Kampf, 145. May: Table Talk, 316. See McDonough, Hitler, 22; Mosse, Nationalization, 196. Cf. Arendt, Origins, 183.

In the late nineteenth century Iliffe, “Effects of the Maji Maji Rebellion,” 558–59. Gerwarth and Malinowski note that the scorched-earth starvation campaign is neglected. “Ghosts,” 283. Military history: Zimmerer, Von Windhuk, 43. Numbers of Herero and Nama from Guettel, “German South-West Africa,” 543. See also Chirot and McCauley, Why Not Kill, 28. Trotha quotation and conditions on Shark Island: Hull, Absolute Destruction, 30, 78; see also Levene, Rise, 233. Comparison to American states by Theodor Leutwein and quotation of Bernhard Dernburg from Guettel, “German South-West Africa,” 550, 524. “Vernichtungsoperation” and “Endl?sung” and 70 percent figure from Lower, “German Colonialism,” 5, 2.

A famous German novel Novel: Sandler, “Colonizers,” 162. French: Second Book, 144. An extended consideration of the differences and connections is Conrad, Globalisation, especially 174, 177, 182. Those who apply Freudian or Girardian arguments to explain the extrusion of German Jews might also consider German relations with Poles.

When Hitler wrote Kopp, “Constructing a Racial Difference,” 84–85 and passim.

During the First World War Mein Kampf, 144. On the Polish question during the First World War, see Niemann, Kaiser und Revolution, 25–36; and Rumpler, Max Hussarek, 50–55. On the cleansing of border zones, see Geiss, Der polnische Grenzstreifen, 125–46. On the politics of the German-Austrian occupation of Ukraine, see Snyder, Red Prince.

The complete loss See Sandler, “Colonizers,” 19, 35, 149–50, and passim; Wildenthal, German Women, 172–73.

“The Slavs are born” Slavish mass: Zimmerer, Von Windhuk, 137. Last war: Kay, Exploitation, 40. Inconceivable: Table Talk, 38. Beads and dance: Table Talk, 34, 425. Nazi song: Ingrao, Believe, 117. Koch: Dallin, German Rule in Russia, 167. See generally the discussion in Lower, Nazi Empire-Building, 24–29. Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is not actually about Europeans and Africans as races, as its opening passage makes unmistakably clear. Conrad was a Pole from Ukraine.

When German occupation came Diary: Berkhoff, Harvest of Despair. States: Mein Kampf, 140. See Jureit, Das Ordnen von R?umen, 219.

Some states, claimed Hitler Foreign intelligentsia and rabbits and leadership in Jewry: Second Book, 34, 149, 151. Worldview: Müller, Der Feind, 44. See also Mazower, Hitler’s Empire, 152.

Communism was the proximate Control point: Govrin, Jewish Factor, 30. Fortunate: Second Book, 153. Preparation for domination: Table Talk, 126. See also S?mtliche Aufzeichnungen, 163. Alexander Stein was making this point in 1936: Adolf Hitler, 111.

Hitler’s interpretation Churchill and Wilson: Ca?a, Antysemitizm, 175; Zaremba, Wielka Trwoga, 71. Times: Schl?gel, “Einleitung,” 15. Destruction of German people (1936): Dieckmann, “Jüdischer Bolschewismus,” 55. Immediately: Second Book, 152. Cards and clay: R?mer, Der Kommissarbefehl, 204. Similar process: Kershaw, Hitler, 651.

In this racist collage Interestingly, the quotation about rivers is often given as “Our Mississippi must be the Volga,” without the final phrase. This alters the meaning and narrows the range of reference quite substantially. See Kershaw, Hitler, 650. For a history of the United States that reminds us that Hitler was not wrong in every respect: Mann, Dark Side of Democracy, 70–98. The history of the United States also demonstrated that slaves could outnumber free settlers. McNeill, Global Condition, 21.