Timothy Snyder esitti tätä mm. vähän aikaa sitten Helsingissä puhuessaan Historioitsijat ilman rajoja tilaisuudessa. Hänen mukaansa Saksan hyökkäys itään oli " kolonialistinen sota", jonka avulla haluttiin luoda Saksalle lisää maata. "Lebensraumia".
In Black Earth, Hitler’s quest for lebensraum is placed in a global context. Snyder, for example, asserts that Hitler was inspired in part by the wide-open spaces of the American West, quoting the German leader as complaining, “Neither the current living space nor that achieved through the restoration of the borders of 1914 permits us to lead
It wasn’t about German nationalism, the historian Timothy Snyder argues. It was about the whole world.
tästä Snyderitla kysytään mm näin:
Delman: You make the point in the book that at some point during the war, Hitler realizes that he’s not winning the colonial aspect of the war—the object to conquer Ukraine and Eastern Europe and create lebensraum—but he can still possibly be victorious in the second objective, which was to exterminate the Jews. [What’s your sense of] how much Hitler could really separate his worldview from his grand strategy and his day-to-day decisions
http://www.theatlantic.com/internationa ... er/404260/
.. ja The Guardianissa:
In the Nazi mind, war was both colonial (to seize territory from the Slavs) and decolonial (to weaken the global domination of Jews). As the colonial war for Lebensraum faltered, Nazis emphasised instead the struggle to save the planet from Jewish domination.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/ ... o-far-away
Mutta kyllä minustakin ajatus siitä, etteikö kyse olisi ollut ollenkaan nationalismista on jotenkin epäuskottava, etteikö Saksaa ja saksalaisia olisi nimenomaan kiihotettu nationalistisella uholla herrakansasta, puhetta täivaltioista jne...