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Planning for the Neuordnung had already begun long before the start of World War II, but Adolf Hitler proclaimed a "European New Order" publicly on 30 January 1941: "The year 1941 will be, I am convinced, the historical year of a great European New Order!"[1]


Among other things, the New Order envisaged the formation of a pan-German racial state, structured according to Nazi ideology, to ensure the existence of a perceived Aryan-Nordic master race, to consolidate a massive territorial expansion into Central and Eastern Europe through colonization by German settlers, to achieve the physical annihilation of Jews, Slavs (especially Poles and Russians), Roma ("gypsies"), and other people who were considered "unworthy of life", as well as to implement the extermination, expulsion or enslavement of most of the Slavic peoples and other people whom Nazi ideology considered "racially inferior".[2] Nazi Germany's aggressive desire for territorial expansion (Lebensraum) ranks as a major cause of World War II.[3]


Historians remain divided as to the ultimate New Order goals – some believe that the New Order was to be limited to Nazi German domination of Europe, while others see it as a springboard for eventual world conquest and the establishment of a world government under German control.[4]

First, the signing of the on 23 August 1939 prior to the invasion of Poland to secure the new eastern border with the Soviet Union, prevent the emergence of a two-front war, and to circumvent a shortage of raw materials due to an expected British naval blockade.

German–Soviet non-aggression agreement

Second, the attacks in northern and western Europe (Operation Weserübung and the Battle of France respectively) to neutralize opposition from the west. This resulted in the conquest of Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France, all of which were under German rule by the early summer of 1940.

Blitzkrieg

Areas annexed by Nazi Germany

the dominion which the Nazis attempted to create by merging all of the Germanic-populated countries in Europe into one state.

Greater Germanic Reich

the envisioned Japanese economic equivalent of the New Order and the Greater Germanic Reich.

Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

A-A line

Jewish settlement in the Japanese Empire

The

Ural Mountains in Nazi planning

Wehrbauer

the Fascist Italian project for securing domination of the Mediterranean area.

Italian imperialism under fascism

Axis power negotiations on the division of Asia during World War II

Grossdeutschland

("The Drive Eastward")

Drang nach Osten

Lebensborn

Lebensraum

Final solution

Generalplan Ost

The Holocaust

Romani Holocaust

European theater of World War II

German-occupied Europe

Nazi eugenics

Nazi racial theories

Racial policy of Nazi Germany

– a conspiracy theory that hypothesizes a secretly emerging totalitarian world government

New World Order (conspiracy theory)

(an international relations theory)

New world order

– In two notable speeches delivered in October 1943, Himmler details the tasks of the SS in implementing the New Order.

Posen speeches

Hegemony

Hypothetical Axis victory in World War II

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Förster, Jürgen

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Lund, Joachim. "Denmark and the 'European New Order', 1940–1942," Contemporary European History, (2004) 13#3 pp 305–321,

Mazower, Mark. Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe (2009)

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