... were descendants of the once mighty Romans, conquerors of much of Europe and the entire Mediterranean basin. Again, they were nowhere near as racially pure as the Germans but Hitler needed allies, particularly to isolate the French. Therefore the Italians fit nicely into both Hitler's scheme of racial ... pronounced military weakness in those states which depended for their existence on foreign trade. The only remedy, and one which might appear to us as visionary, lay in the acquisition of greater living space." (8) Germany would only retain its racial purity by gaining living space on t...

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