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Originally Posted by nocturnal  I don't believe the Nazis were trying to alter the world in their own image. They were interested in subjugating the world, imposing their hegemony, and using coercive measures, forcing conquered peoples and territories to conform to Nazi policies. |
I don't think there's any evidence that their territorial ambition stretched much further than recovering traditionally 'German ' territorities in Europe and sweeping up further land in eastern Europe to provide 'lebensraum'. Such a nation had it been established would have been a dominant economic power anyway, at least in Europe. I don't think 'the world' was ever on the agenda; there was certainly no desire to fight France and Britain let alone the USSR and United States.. although arguably Hitler believed war with the USSR was an ideological inevitability. He rather anticipated, at least prior to 1940, that Britain France and the USA would be on
his side in such a conflict.