waauw wrote:Wanted yes, but it was actually never really his objectif, except maybe when his empire was at its largest and he grew overconfident.
But you could also same the same thing with Hitler.
Germany's foreign policy during the war involved the creation of allied governments under direct or indirect control from Berlin. A main goal was obtaining soldiers from the senior allies, such as Italy and Hungary, and millions of workers and ample food supplies from subservient allies such as Vichy France.
When a country was no longer dependable, Germany would assume full control, as it did with France in 1942, Italy in 1943, and Hungary in 1944. Full control allowed the Nazis to achieve their high priority of mass murdering all Jewish population.
In many aspects the conquest was more in the colonial mode turning the other states of Europe into colonies of Germany ...
German policy was not to use or build factories in occupied Eastern Europe but to move millions of workers into German factories and farms. Some were forced, some were voluntarily (going in search of food), others were prisoners of war. They were closely watched, had poor food and housing, and were harshly treated. Their morale and levels of output were mediocre or poor. At the peak the forced labourers comprised 20% of the German work force.
The notion that this is the same as that of the European Union (which is more like the rise of the United Stated federal government had the later been designed under the principles of Progressivism and not under the principles of the Age of Enlightenment) is just absurd on its face.
