Victory80 — Special Project

American Roots of German Nazism: How & Why Hitler Wanted to Repeat the US Expansionism

17:33, 1 April 2025
Kirill Kurevlev
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The defeat in World War I revealed to the Führer and his inner circle that the traditional European colonial model was no longer viable for Germany. Therefore, once in power, the Nazis sought to implement the United States' expansionist model.
Sputnik
"Hitler wanted to make Germany his United States," historian Yegor Yakovlev, author of the book "The War of Annihilation," told Sputnik.
In the first video of the series, Yakovlev, a researcher on the genesis and evolution of Nazism, explains exclusively to Sputnik how and why the American expansionist model served as a model for Hitler's plans for the East.
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