GERMAN VIEWS ON THE GLOBAL IMPERIAL POWER STRUGGLE
OF THE GREAT POWERS

With the loss of its colonies in World War I, Germany saw itself facing a death sentence as a world power.  As a result of Haushofer's theories of geopolitics, drilled into him by both Haushofer and Hess in Landsberg fortress, Hitler saw Germany compelled to gain a land empire or be wiped out as a world power and possibly even be conquered by Russia.  His solution, a cornerstone of his ideas, was a grand plan to conquer European Russia, ideally in concert with a Japanese attack on Siberia.  In one masterstroke he would both wipe communism and gain an empire.

The following piece of 1939 German propaganda compares Germany to England.  It represents a very important part of Germany's self image as a desperate have not nation, that was being cheated out of its place in the sun.