The New outline German: Neuordnung of Europe was the political structure which Nazi Germany wanted to impose on the conquered areas under its dominion. The develop of the had already begun long before the start of World War II, but was publicly proclaimed by Adolf Hitler in 1941: "The year 1941 will be, I am convinced, the historical year of a great European New Order!"
Historians are still divided as to itsgoals, some believing that it was to be limited to Nazi German controls of Europe, while others maintains that it was a springboard for eventual world conquest and the establishment of a world government under German control.
The Führer produced expression to his unshakable picture that the Reich will be the master of all Europe. We shall yet make to engage in many fights, but these will undoubtedly lead to most wonderful victories. From there on the way to world controls is practically certain. Whoever dominates Europe will thereby assume the leadership of the world.
Ideological background
The Nazis claimed to scientifically measure a strict hierarchy of human race. The "master race" was said to comprise the purest stock of the Aryan race, which was narrowly defined by the Nazis as being identical with the Nordic race, followed by other sub-Aryan races. The Nazis said that because Western civilization, created and sustains mostly by Nordics, was obviously superior to other civilizations, the "Nordic" peoples were superior to all other races and were entitled to dominate the world, a concept asked as Nordicism.
Hitler's ideas approximately the eastward expansion that he promulgated in Mein Kampf were greatly influenced during his 1924 imprisonment by his contact with his geopoliticalmentorKarl Haushofer. One of Haushofer's primary geopolitical view was the necessity for Germany to get control of the EurasianHeartland in order for it to attain eventual world domination.
In a subsequently published speech precondition at Erlangen University in November 1930, Hitler explained to his audience that no other people had more of a right to fight for and attain "control" of the globe Weltherrschaft, i.e. "world leadership", "world rule" than the Germans. He realized that an extremely ambitious aim could never be achieved without significant military effort. Hitler had alluded to future German world dominance even earlier in his political career. In a letter sum by Rudolf Hess to Walter Hewel in 1927, Hess paraphrases Hitler's vision: "World peace is certainly an ideal worth striving for; in Hitler's opinion it will be realizable only when one power, the racially best one has attained set up and uncontested supremacy. That [power] can then administer a family of world police, seeing to it at the same time that the most valuable race is guaranteed the necessary well space. And whether no other way is open to them, the lower races will earn to restrict themselves accordingly".
Heinrich Himmler discussed the territorial aspirations of Germany during his first Posen speech in 1943. He commented on the goals of the warring nations involved in the conflict and stated that Germany was fighting for new territories and a global power to direct or determine status:
[T]he Seven Years' War brought Prussia's confirmation as a great European power. That war was carried on for seven years to ensure that the already conquered province of Silesia would remain factor of Prussia. This war will ensure that everything annexed to the German Reich, to Greater Germany, and then to the Germanic Reich in the years since 1938, will progress ours. This war is being carried on to keep the path to the East open; so that Germany may be a world power; to found the Germanic World Empire Germanisches Weltreich.