Look at Weimar Germany, then look at after. What do you see?
>> Look at Weimar Germany, then look at after
I look all the way through 1945 and I see a megalomaniac’s folly that led an entire nation to 4-5 million deaths (both military and nonmilitary) postwar occupation, partition into East/West (in some ways that will never be healed) and a diminished status for the next 50 years.
Francois Mauriac once said post WWII „I love Germany so much I’m glad there are two of them.“
What about the post WWII expulsions of the ethic Germans from the areas where they traditionally lived since the Middle Ages? Ain’t never coming back.
The great social welfare state (for the Deutsche Volk only) of the 3rd Reich, that you probably idolize, was not sustainable without the constant military expansion and occupation/enslavement of the Eastern lands.
Why couldn’t Germany stay contained in Germany and build their racial volkisch paradise there?