“Germany was not overpopulated and desperate for space. Germany was no more densely settled than the UK.”
Yes, but they had *plans*.
And the Brits had an empire to populate.
Again, the motivation of both Hitler and his party was their ideological obsessions - not an economic strategy based on natural resources.
And the Brits had an empire to populate.
The British Empire was on its last legs in 1940.
They were effectively pushed out of China. Malaysia was overrun. India was hostile to their rule. The USA was long independent. South Africa was independent. Most of Ireland was independent.
The English were not happily emigrating in droves to the colonies while Germans were trapped in Germany.
The opposite was the case: plenty of Englishmen were pouring back into the UK from Malaysia, India, etc.
English emigrants went to America, Australia and Canada, where they were welcome. But there wasn't exactly mass emigration from the UK to any of these countries in the 1930s.
German emigrants had Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, where they were welcome and where there were sizable German minorities.