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The Greater Germanic Reich (German: ''Großgermanisches Reich''), fully styled the Greater Germanic Reich of the German Nation (German: ''Großgermanisches Reich Deutscher Nation'') is the official state name of the political entity that Nazi Germany tried to establish in Europe during World War II.〔Elvert 1999, p. 325.〕 Albert Speer stated in his memoirs that Hitler also referred to the envisioned state as the Teutonic Reich of the German Nation, although it is unclear whether Speer was using the now seldom used "Teutonic" as an English synonym for "Germanic".〔Speer 1970, p. 260.〕 Hitler also mentions a future Germanic State of the German Nation ((ドイツ語:Germanischer Staat Deutscher Nation)) in ''Mein Kampf''.〔(DHM - Mein Kampf )〕 The territorial claims for the Greater Germanic Reich vacillated over time. As early as the autumn of 1933, Hitler envisioned annexing such territories as Bohemia, Western Poland and Austria to Germany and creation of satellite or puppet states without economies or policies of their own.〔.〕 After gaining power until February 1939, Hitler tried to conceal his true intentions towards Poland and revealed them only to his closest associates; the signing of a non-aggression pact with Poland in 1934 was a political maneuver to conceal his true intentions towards Poland.〔Stutthof. Zeszyty Muzeum, 3. PL ISSN 0137-5377. Mirosław Gliński Geneza obozu koncentracyjnego Stutthof na tle hitlerowskich przygotowan w Gdansku do wojny z Polsk〕 From 1934 to early 1939, Nazi Germany secretly prepared for war against Poland and mass murder and ethnic cleansing of its population, while officially claiming to the Polish government that it would continue to guarantee Poland's existence (though still maintaining its claims on the Polish Corridor) and offer Poland the right to annex the entirety of Ukraine from the Soviet Union, should Poland support Germany in a war with the Soviet Union, while Germany would annex the Baltic states and Soviet territories.〔Oscar Pinkus. ''The War Aims and Strategies of Adolf Hitler''. McFarland, 2005. P44.〕〔Gerhard L. Weinberg. ''Hitler's Foreign Policy 1933-1939: The Road to World War II''. Enigma Books, 2013. P152.〕 Amidst and for a short time after German–Soviet negotiations for the partition of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union took place, Hitler did not include territorial designs on the Soviet Union within the Greater Germanic Reich from 1939 to 1941, and instead was focusing on uniting the Germanic peoples of Scandinavia and the Low Countries into the Reich.〔Heinrich August Winkler. ''Germany, The Long Road West, 1933-1990''. Oxford, England, UK: Oxford University Press. p. 74.〕 This pan-Germanic Empire was expected to assimilate practically all of Germanic Europe into an enormously expanded Reich. Territorially speaking, this encompassed the already-enlarged German Reich itself (consisting of pre-1938 Germany proper, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Alsace-Lorraine, Eupen-Malmedy, Memel, Lower Styria, Upper Carniola, Southern Carinthia and German-occupied Poland), the Netherlands, the Flemish part of Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, at least the German-speaking parts of Switzerland, and Liechtenstein.〔Rich 1974, pp. 401-402.〕 The most notable exception was the United Kingdom, which was not projected as having to be reduced to a German province but to instead become an allied seafaring partner of the Germans.〔Strobl 2000, pp. 202-208.〕 Another exception was German-populated territory in South Tyrol that was part of allied Italy. Aside from Germanic Europe, the Reich's western frontiers with France were to be reverted to those of the earlier Holy Roman Empire, which would have meant the complete annexation of all of Wallonia, French Switzerland, and large areas of northern and eastern France.〔Williams 2005, p. 209.〕 Additionally, the policy of ''Lebensraum'' planned mass expansion of Germany eastwards to the Ural Mountains.〔André Mineau. Operation Barbarossa: Ideology and Ethics Against Human Dignity. Rodopi, 2004. P. 36〕〔Rolf Dieter Müller, Gerd R. Ueberschär. ''Hitler's War in the East, 1941-1945: A Critical Assessment''. Berghahn Books, 2009. P. 89.〕 Hitler planned for the "surplus" Russian population living west of the Urals to be deported to the east of the Urals.〔Bradl Lightbody. ''The Second World War: Ambitions to Nemesis''. London, England, UK; New York, New York, USA: Routledge, 2004. p. 97.〕 ==Ideological background== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Greater Germanic Reich」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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