Hitler's Plans for Western Europe

[Walther Darré]

Did Hitler have any plans for western Europe, except for various annexations (?) mentioned in an other thread? Like... annexing occupied France (not Vichy-France)?

[cptstennes]

Various small annexations. As Elsass-Lorraine and Eupen-Malmedy. The Tyrol was out of the picture. Switzerland was out of the picture not because of its possible heroic resistance but because it was a financial link to the world. Luxembourg, Liechtenstein. Maybe E. France. Burgundy (see the Goebbels diaries) Adjacent areas of Austria, i.e Slovenia. Germanizing the whole. Then, of course, the whole area would be Judenrein and made into a sphere for the provision of raw materials to the Reich for autarky. The Reich, with a raw materials base in W. Europe, would be a base to make Germany invulnerable to attack. Regards, F.