The Plotting of Aggressive War

• Introduction
• 1933-1936
• Formulation and execution of plans to invade Austria and Czechoslovakia
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• Formulation and execution of the plan to invade Poland
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• Expansion into general war of aggression: Scandanavia, the Low Countries, the Balkans
• Aggression against the USSR
• Collaboration with Japan: Precipitation of the Pearl Harbor attack
• Legal references and list of documents relating to the plotting of aggressive war

Preparation for aggression: 1933-1936

• Introduction
• Planning to overthrow the Versailles Treaty
• Economic and financial preparations for aggressive war
• Renunciation of armament provisions of Versailles Treaty
• Secret rearmament
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• Assurances
• Reoccupation of the Rhineland
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• Legal references and list of documents relating to preparation for aggression: 1933-1936

Aggression against Austria

• Events leading up to the Autumn of 1937 and the strategic position of the National Socialists in Austria
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• Assurances & reassurances, Temporary countenance of a Quiet Pressure policy
• Germany's continuing program of weakening the Austrian government
• Nazi demands & demonstrations, Schuschnigg's concessions, Germany's diplomatic preparations for conquest
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• Pressure & threats resulting in further concessions: Berchtesgaden, 12 February 1930
  • Pressure & threats resulting in further concessions (Continued)
• Events culminating in the German invasion of 12 March 1938
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• The order to invade Austria, communications with Rome, Appointment of Seyss-Inquart as Chancellor
• Appointment of Seyss-Inquart (Continued)
• The invasion and absorbtion of Austria
• Legal references and list of documents relating to aggression against Austria

The execution of the plan to invade Czechoslovakia

• Development of the Nazi program of aggression
• The background of friendly diplomatic relations
• Planning for aggression
  • Development of specific plans
  • Development of specific plans - Case Green
  • Development of specific plans - Case Green, Directive Green (Continued)
  • Luftwaffe participation in early planning for Case Green
  • Negotiations with Italy and Hungary about Case Green
  • Negations with Hungary about Case Green (Continued)
• Final preparations for the attack
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• The campaign within Czechoslovakia
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• Planning for the conquest of the remainder of Czechoslovakia
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• Extension of Fifth Column activity
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• (Continued), Occupation of Czechoslovakia under threat of military force
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• The importance of Czechoslovakia in future aggressions
• Legal references and list of documents relating to the execution of the plan to invade Czechoslovakia

Opening address for the United Kingdom

• Introduction
• Historical development of relevant law
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  • (Continued), Breech of treaties with invasion of Poland
• Hitler misleads Polish State with false assurances
• The initiation and waging of aggressive war
• The seizure of Czechoslovakia
• Nazi plans to seize Danzig and the Memel-land, Hitler seeks justification for invasion of Poland
• German battle plan issued, Italy urges caution
• The invasion of Norway, Denmark, Belgium and the Low Countries
• Invasion of Low Countries (Continued)
• The Invasion of Greece and Yugoslavia
• The Invasion of Russian
• Summary
  • (Continued)

Aggression as a basic Nazi idea: Mein Kampf

• Aggression as a basic Nazi idea: Mein Kampf

Treaty violations

• Introduction
• The Hague Convention of 1899
• The Hague Convention for the pacific settlement of international disputes, and the conventional relative to the opening of hostilities, 1907
• The Hague Convention #5, respecting the rights and duties of neutral powers and persons in case of war on land, 1907
• Nazi guarantees to Danzig and Memel
• Nazi guarantees to Czechoslovakia, Bohemia and Moravia
• Armament Limitations
• Treaty between the United States and Germany restoring friendly relations, Treaty of Mutual Guarantee, Locarno, 1925
• Arbitration Treaties, Locarno, the League of Nations Declaration, Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928
• Nazi assurances to Austria & Czechoslovakia, Munich Agreement
• Legal references and list of documents relating to treaty violations

Aggression against Poland, Danzig, England and France

• Treaties breached
• German intentions before March 1939
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• Final preparations: June - September 1939
  • Military
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  • Economic; the Obersalzburg speech, Diplomatic preparations
  • (Continued), Pleas for peace
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  • Invasion order given
  • War declared
• Legal references and list of documents relating to aggression against Poland, Danzig, England and France

Aggression against Norway and Denmark

• Treaties & assurances violated
• Early planning for invasion
• Use of the Fifth Column: Quisling
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• Operational planning
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• Nazi justification of invasion
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• Legal references and list of documents relating to aggression against Norway and Denmark

Aggression against Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg

• Applicable treaties, Nazi guarantees, Nazi military outlook
• Military assumptions, Nazi assurances to Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg
• Nazi hypocrisy: Hitler orders military preparation
• Invasion begins
• Legal references and list of documents relating to aggression against Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg

Aggression against Greece and Yugoslavia

• Treaties and assurances breached
• Planning for invasion: Collaboration with Italy and Bulgaria
  • (Continued)
• Lulling the unsuspecting victim
• Further planning for attack
• Explanations
• Summary
• Legal references and list of documents relating to aggression against Greece and Yugoslavia

Aggression against the USSR

• Inception of the plan
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• Plan Barbarossa
• Military planning and preparation for the implementation of Barbarossa
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• Plans for the economic exploitation and spoilation of the USSR
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• Preparation for the political phase of the aggression
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• The motives for the attack
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• Legal references and list of documents relating to the aggression against the USSR

Collaboration with Italy and Japan and aggressive war against the United States: November 1936 to December 1941

• Formal German-Japanese-Italian alliances
• Nazi encouragement of aggression by Japan
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  • (Continued) Basic Order No. 24 regarding collaboration with Japan
  • (Continued) Diplomatic conversations
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• Nazi preparations and collaboration with the Japanese against the United States
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• Legal references and list of documents relating to collaboration with Italy and Japan...

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