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The Nazis' bid for a European empire was as much a conquest for raw materials as it was an expans... more The Nazis' bid for a European empire was as much a conquest for raw materials as it was an expansion of 'race and space.' 1 Among the raw materials that the German leadership hoped to plunder was oil, a resource that Germany lacked. Germany's shortage of oil and the Nazis' quest to achieve oil security affected the course of the war and was a contributing factor in the ultimate collapse of the Third Reich. Tracing and analyzing Nazi oil policy furthermore illustrates how Nazi ideology, combined with hubris and wishful thinking, affected the way Nazi leadership pursued practical objectives.
Winston Churchill famously remarked in an October 1939 radio address that Russia is -a riddle wra... more Winston Churchill famously remarked in an October 1939 radio address that Russia is -a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.‖ In the decades after the Second World War, as the Grand Alliance gave way to bitter Cold War, the source of Soviet conduct-be it national security interests, Stalin's dysfunctional personality, or Marxist-Leninis ideology-was the subject of rancorous debate among historians in determining the origins of East-West confrontation.
The Nazis' bid for a European empire was as much a conquest for raw materials as it was an expans... more The Nazis' bid for a European empire was as much a conquest for raw materials as it was an expansion of 'race and space.' 1 Among the raw materials that the German leadership hoped to plunder was oil, a resource that Germany lacked. Germany's shortage of oil and the Nazis' quest to achieve oil security affected the course of the war and was a contributing factor in the ultimate collapse of the Third Reich. Tracing and analyzing Nazi oil policy furthermore illustrates how Nazi ideology, combined with hubris and wishful thinking, affected the way Nazi leadership pursued practical objectives.
Winston Churchill famously remarked in an October 1939 radio address that Russia is -a riddle wra... more Winston Churchill famously remarked in an October 1939 radio address that Russia is -a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.‖ In the decades after the Second World War, as the Grand Alliance gave way to bitter Cold War, the source of Soviet conduct-be it national security interests, Stalin's dysfunctional personality, or Marxist-Leninis ideology-was the subject of rancorous debate among historians in determining the origins of East-West confrontation.