- New Order (political system)
New Order ("Neuordnung") is the name used to denote the political, economic, and social system which the Nazis hoped to establish in
Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. The establishment of the "New Order" was proclaimed byAdolf Hitler in 1940. The "New Order" meant absolute Nazi Germanhegemony in Europe.Geopolitical strategy behind the New Order
Hitler’s ideas about eastward expansion that he promulgated in "
Mein Kampf " were greatly influenced by his contact during his 1924 imprisonment with his geopoliticalmentor Karl Haushofer . [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=wtKJk4Hz23MC&pg=PA123&lpg=PA123&dq=%22german+strategy+for+world+conquest%22&source=web&ots=jt2uqKpD3b&sig=rtupr0Yr6S17STs5SXi0rhLZ9PA#PPP1,M1 "Geopolitics and Globalization in the Twentieth Century" By Brian W. Blouet (2001):] ] One of Haushofer’s primary geopolitical concepts was the necessity forGermany to get control of theEurasia nheartland in order for Germany to attain eventualworld domination . [ Derwent, Whittlesey "German Strategy for World Conquest" New York:1942 Farrar and Rinehart]Initial phase of the establishment of the New Order
The initial phase of the establishment of the New Order was:
*First, the signing of the German-Soviet Pact on
23 August 1939 to lull theSoviet Union into a false sense of security.*Second, the
Blitzkrieg German invasion and conquest ofFrance ,Luxemburg ,Belgium , theNetherlands ,Denmark , andNorway to neutralize opposition from the west. This occurred in the spring of 1940.*Third, the neutralization or the conquest of
Great Britain . Initially, Hitler wanted to make a deal with Great Britain in which theBritish Empire would be given a free hand over theocean s of theworld andGermany would be given a free hand inEurope . However, when Britain refused this deal, Hitler planned the conquest of Great Britain inOperation Sea Lion , which was to be implemented after the anticipated German victory in theBattle of Britain . After the German conquest of Britain, it was planned to establish a "Reichskommissariat Gross-Britannien" under the command of General Franz Alfred Six. The pro-GermanDuke of Windsor would have been restored asKing Edward VIII as Hitler’s puppetking . Most English men would have been exported as slave labor to the East. About 2,000,000 youngNordic English women would have been forced intostud farm s as part of thelebensborn program to be impregnated bySS men to help populate the East. [ Clarke, Comer "England Under Hitler: Revealed at Last—The Secret Nazi Plans for the Rape of England" New York:1961 Ballantine Books (paperback edition)--Franz Alfred Six was interviewed at his home inWest Germany for this book about the Nazi German plans for the occupation of Great Britain. ] Fact|date=October 2008The first two phases of the initial plan for the establishment of the New Order were successful, but Hitler was unable to implement the third phase since Great Britain won the Battle of Britain.
Implementation of the long range plan for the New Order
Implementation of the long range plan for the New Order was begun on
22 June 1941 withOperation Barbarossa --the invasion ofRussia . By 1942 the military regimes called the "General Gouvernment " inPoland , the "Reichskommissariat Ostland " in theBaltic states andWhite Russia , and the "Reichskommissariat Ukraine " inUkraine had been established.Nazi party philosopher Alfred Rosenberg (who, incidentally, protested against the inhumane policy shown toward the Slavs) was the "Minister for the Eastern Territories" nominally in charge of the project, andHeinrich Himmler , head of the SS, was assigned to implement the enslavement and extermination of the non-Aryanpopulation . The long range plan, as detailed by Hitler in "Mein Kampf", was the annexation of large eastern territories for German settlement, eventually expanding the territory ofGreater Germany up to point where its eastern border would be theUral Mountains , in order for Germany to obtain "lebensraum " [http://www.obersalzberg.de/cms_e/content/popup/besetztes5_2.jpg] . It was planned to set up a "Reichskommissariat Moskau " that would include theMoscow metropolitan area and vast tracts of adjacentEuropean Russia , and a "Reichskommissariat Kaukasus " in theCaucasus area. This policy was accompanied by the extermination of theirJewish population (seefinal solution ) as well as the enslavement of their Slavic population, who it was planned would be made slave laborers on the estates to be granted toSS men after the conquest ofEuropean Russia . Each SS man "gentleman farmer" was expected to father at least seven children. [ Padfield, Peter "Himmler" New York:1990--Henry Holt Page 317 ] German women were encouraged to have as manychildren as possible to populate the anticipated Eastern territories to be annexed. In order to encourage thisfertility policy, the lebensborn program was expanded and thestate decoration known as the Gold Honor Cross of the German Mother was instituted, which was awarded to German women who bore eight or more children for theThird Reich . Himmler envisaged a German population of 300,000,000 by 2000.The New Order in Europe
The map at right shows the extent of the New Order in Europe at its maximum extent in 1942.
Light blue is the traditional color used incartography in Germany to represent Germany and itssphere of influence , as a contrast topink orred , the traditional color used in cartography to represent Great Britain and its sphere of influence, theBritish Empire (in this map, the color dark pink is used to represent theAllies ).ecret diplomatic conference to divide Asia
In 1942, a secret diplomatic conference was held between
Nazi Germany and theJapanese Empire in which they agreed to divideAsia along a line that followed theYenisei River to the border ofChina , and then along the border of China and theSoviet Union , the northern and western borders ofAfghanistan , and the border betweenIran andIndia (what is nowPakistan was then part of India). It was agreed that after Nazi German troops had reached the Ural Mountains, Japan would invade the Soviet Union from the east to finish it off and the German and Japanese troops would meet at the Yenisei River. Nazi Germany planned to establish a "Reichskommissariat West Siberien" between theUral Mountains and theYenisei River for housing inconcentration camp s asslave labor for industrial enterprises thoseSlavs who were not being worked as slaves on the estates of the German farmers west of the Urals. [ Weinberg, Gerhard L. "Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders" Cambridge, England, United Kingdom:2005--Cambridge University Press [http://assets.cambridge.org/97805218/52548/frontmatter/9780521852548_frontmatter.pdf] ]In 1942, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania,
Bulgaria , and Serbia (including the German-dominated autonomous area of Banat) were already satellites of Nazi Germany (Croatia, Montenegro, and Greece were satellites of Italy;Albania had been annexed by Italy). After Germany had conqueredEuropean Russia , the plan was to then make Georgia,Azerbaijan ,Armenia ,Kazakhstan ,Turkmenistan ,Uzbekistan ,Kyrgyzstan , andTajikistan all also become satellites of Germany.Plan for German domination of central Africa
The
general staff of the German Navy produced in 1940 a map showing a proposed Germancolonial empire (depicted as colored blue) insub-Saharan Africa extending from theAtlantic Ocean to theIndian Ocean . [ Padfield, Peter "Himmler" New York:1990--Henry Holt Page 309 ]Plan for German domination of South America
Germany planned to dominate
South America east of theAndes Mountains . [ Derwent, Whittlesey "German Strategy for World Conquest" New York:1942 Farrar and Rinehart] Hitler planned to open upArgentina (a country already having a large population of German origin) to extensive German settlement. [ Waite, Robert G.L. "The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler" New York:1977 New American Library Page 73 ]Hitler's plan for the eventual conquest of North America
In , written in 1928, Hitler envisioned an apocalyptic air war of conquest against the United States by his successor in 1980, conducted by a great fleet of German long range
bomber s.Hitler's plans for retirement
At the time of the initial invasion of Russia (Operation Barbarossa) in June 1941, Hitler had expected to win victory in World War II by 1945, and he then planned, after completing the construction of the
Welthauptstadt Germania plan ofAlbert Speer forBerlin , to hold a greatWorld's Fair in Berlin in 1950 and then retire to his hometown ofLinz . [ Speer, Albert "Inside the Third Reich" New York:1970--Macmillan P.139 ]Abandonment of the project for the New Order
The Nazi party was forced on the defensive after the
Battle of Stalingrad in January 1943 and was thus no longer actively able to pursue implementation of the New Order in Russia, although thegenocide against the Jews, often referred to as theHolocaust , continued. The New Order project was renounced at the end of 1944 because Himmler hoped to get the Western Allies to agree to a separate peace apart from theSoviet Union , and in order to do so, he wanted to appear more humane. In March 1945, Himmler even agreed to meet with a representative of theWorld Jewish Congress , saying "Let's bury the hatchet" . [ Padfield, Peter "Himmler" New York:1990--Henry Holt Pages 571-579 ]References
ee also
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Aryan race
*Atlantic Wall
*"Drang nach Osten " ("The Drive Eastward")
*European theatre of World War II
*Final solution
*Generalplan Ost
*German-occupied Europe
*Grossdeutschland
*Holocaust
*Karl Haushofer
*Lebensborn
*Lebensraum
*New World Order--conspiracy theory
*New World Order--political theory
*Posen speech --A speech by Himmler given on6 October 1943 detailing the tasks of the SS in implementing the New Order.
*SS
*World domination
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