Hitler’s Alliance With The Soviet Union

Hitler’s Alliance With The Soviet Union

When the world awoke August 24, 1939 it appeared that the absolute

impossible had just occurred in Europe, National Socialist Germany and

Soviet Russia had just agreed on a Non Aggression pact. By that morning the

entire political world had changed, it had been thrown roughly on its head

and people quickly asked how it could have happened? Over a period of three

years the German chancellor, Adolph Hitler had repeatedly pushed the major

powers to the limit with his territorial demands in the Rhineland, Austria,

Czechoslovakia, and now in the Polish corridor. Hitler had succeeded in

each gamble and grown bolder each time as he noticed the vacillating nature

of the supposed major powers that stood in the way of his completing his

long held foreign policy program. This program, first coherently laid down

in his 1924 book Mein Kampf, called for the re-armament of Germany and the

acquisition of allies like Italy and Britain, the neutralization or

destruction of his hated enemy France, and finally with Germany’s rear

protected the way would be clear for the great fight against

Judeo-Bolshevism in the Soviet Union, and the gaining of Lebensraum for the

superior Aryan German race. Since coming to power in 1933, Hitler had

completed the first phase of his program save for the making of a British

alliance or at least their promise of neutrality in any upcoming European

war of revision. Realizing that the British would need some coercing to

accept his program, and that if war was to come with the west his eastern

border must be secured, Hitler relied on his great ability to play the game

of power politics and shocked the world by allying with his sworn enemy.

Hitler sought the Non-Aggression pact and covert military alliance with the

Soviet Union because it was a temporary means to an all encompassing end.

Hitler would use the hated Soviets to secure his eastern flank while he

destroyed France with or without the help of Britain, only to return the

favor by attacking them when Germany was ready. It was a move consistent

with the power politics and foreign policy program he had been pursuing

since 1933, his attempts to force Britain into a military alliance or at

least a proclamation of neutrality in any continental war, and the

subjugation of France as a prerequisite to obtaining Lebensraum in the East.

The Non-Aggression pact of August 1939, was the pre war culmination of

policies designed by Hitler to further his foreign policy program of making