![]() ![]() (Distinguish the European "New Order" from the neo-fascist New European Order (founded in 1951), established as an alleged "Black International". The complete phrase used by the Nazi establishment was actually die Neuordnung Europas (the New Order of Europe), for which Neuordnung was merely a shorthand. In the same sense, it has also been used, now and in the past, to denote similar re-orderings of the international political order such as those following the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, the Congress of Vienna in 1815, and the Allied victory in 1945. When it was used in Germany during the Third Reich era, it referred specifically to the desire of the Nazis to redraw the state borders within Europe, thereby transforming the existing geopolitical structures. ![]() It is typically translated as "New Order", but a more correct translation would be more akin to "reorganization". The term Neuordnung originally had a more limited meaning than it did later. Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, Origin of the term The New Order in Europe: German and other Axis conquests in Europe during World War II. Whoever dominates Europe will thereby assume the leadership of the world. From there on the way to world domination is practically certain. We shall yet have to engage in many fights, but these will undoubtedly lead to most wonderful victories. The Führer gave expression to his unshakable conviction that the Reich will be the master of all Europe. Historians remain divided as to the ultimate New Order goals - some believe that the New Order was to be limited to Nazi German domination of Europe, while others see it as a springboard for eventual world conquest and the establishment of a world government under German control. Nazi Germany's aggressive desire for territorial expansion ( Lebensraum) ranks as a major cause of World War II. Planning for the Neuordnung had already begun long before the start of World War II, but Adolf Hitler proclaimed a "European New Order" publicly on 30 January 1941: "The year 1941 will be, I am convinced, the historical year of a great European New Order!" A Nazi propaganda poster depicting Aryan racial supremacyĪmong other things, the New Order envisaged the formation of a pan-German racial state, structured according to Nazi ideology, to ensure the existence of a perceived Aryan- Nordic master race, to consolidate a massive territorial expansion into Central and Eastern Europe through colonization by German settlers, to achieve the physical annihilation of Jews, Slavs (especially Poles and Russians), Roma ("gypsies"), and other people who were considered "unworthy of life", as well as to implement the extermination, expulsion or enslavement of most of the Slavic peoples and other people whom Nazi ideology considered "racially inferior". The New Order ( German: Neuordnung) of Europe was the political and social system that Nazi Germany wanted to impose on the areas of Europe that it conquered and occupied. ![]()
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