New Order (political system)

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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 by Adolf Hitler in 1940. The New Order meant absolute Nazi German hegemony in Europe.

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[edit] 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 geopolitical mentor Karl Haushofer. [1] One of Haushofer’s primary geopolitical concepts was the necessity for Germany to get control of the Eurasian Heartland in order for Germany to attain eventual world domination. [2]

[edit] Initial phase of the establishment of the New Order

The initial phase of the establishment of the New Order was:

  • Third, the neutralization or the conquest of Great Britain. Initially, Hitler wanted to make a deal with Great Britain in which the British Empire would be given a free hand over the oceans of the world and Germany would be given a free hand in Europe. However, when Britain refused this deal, Hitler planned the conquest of Great Britain in Operation Sea Lion, which was to be implemented after the anticipated German victory in the Battle 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-German Duke of Windsor would have been restored as King Edward VIII as Hitler’s puppet king. Most English men would have been exported as slave labor to the East. About 2,000,000 young Nordic English women would have been forced into stud farms as part of the lebensborn program to be impregnated by SS men to help populate the East. [3]


The 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.

[edit] 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 with Operation Barbarossa--the invasion of Russia. By 1942 the military regimes called the General Gouvernment in Poland, the Reichskommissariat Ostland in the Baltic states and White Russia, and the Reichskommissariat Ukraine in Ukraine 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, and Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, was assigned to implement the enslavement and extermination of the non-Aryan population. 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 of Greater Germany up to point where its eastern border would be the Ural Mountains, in order for Germany to obtain lebensraum [2]. It was planned to set up a Reichskommissariat Moskau that would include the Moscow metropolitan area and vast tracts of adjacent European Russia, and a Reichskommissariat Kaukasus in the Caucasus area. This policy was accompanied by the extermination of their Jewish population (see final 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 to SS men after the conquest of European Russia. Each SS man "gentleman farmer" was expected to father at least seven children. [4]German women were encouraged to have as many children as possible to populate the anticipated Eastern territories to be annexed. In order to encourage this fertility policy, the lebensborn program was expanded and the state 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 the Third Reich. Himmler envisaged a German population of 300,000,000 by 2000.

[edit] The New Order in Europe

The New Order in Europe: German and other Axis conquests (in blue) in Europe during World War II.
The New Order in Europe: German and other Axis conquests (in blue) in Europe during World War II.

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 in cartography in Germany to represent Germany and its sphere of influence, as a contrast to pink or red, the traditional color used in cartography to represent Great Britain and its sphere of influence, the British Empire (in this map, the color dark pink is used to represent the Allies).

[edit] Secret diplomatic conference to divide Asia

In 1942, a secret diplomatic conference was held between Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire in which they agreed to divide Asia along a line that followed the Yenisei River to the border of China, and then along the border of China and the Soviet Union, the northern and western borders of Afghanistan, and the border between Iran and India (what is now Pakistan 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 Reichkommisariat West Siberien between the Ural Mountains and the Yenisei River for housing in concentration camps as slave labor for industrial enterprises those Slavs who were not being worked as slaves on the estates of the German farmers west of the Urals. [5]

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 conquered European Russia, the plan was to then make Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan all also become satellites of Germany.

[edit] Plan for German domination of central Africa

The general staff of the German Navy produced in 1940 a map showing a proposed German colonial empire (depicted as colored blue) in sub-Saharan Africa extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean. [6]

[edit] Plan for German domination of South America

Germany planned to dominate South America east of the Andes Mountains. [7] Hitler planned to open up Argentina (a country already having a large population of German origin) to extensive German settlement. [8]

[edit] Hitler's plan for the eventual conquest of North America

In Hitler's Second Book: The Unpublished Sequel to Mein Kampf, 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 bombers.

[edit] 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 of Albert Speer for Berlin, to hold a great World's Fair in Berlin in 1950 and then retire to his hometown of Linz. [9]

[edit] 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 the genocide against the Jews, often referred to as the Holocaust, 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 the Soviet 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 the World Jewish Congress, saying "Let's bury the hatchet" [ ! ]. [10]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Geopolitics and Globalization in the Twentieth Century By Brian W. Blouet (2001):
  2. ^ Derwent, Whittlesey German Strategy for World Conquest New York:1942 Farrar and Rinehart
  3. ^ Clarke, Comer England Under Hitler: Revealed at Last—The Secret Nazi Plans for the Rape of England New York:1961 Ballantine Books (paperback edition)
  4. ^ Padfield, Peter Himmler New York:1990--Henry Holt Page 317
  5. ^ Weinberg, Gerhard L. Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders Cambridge, England, United Kingdom:2005--Cambridge University Press [1]
  6. ^ Padfield, Peter Himmler New York:1990--Henry Holt Page 309
  7. ^ Derwent, Whittlesey German Strategy for World Conquest New York:1942 Farrar and Rinehart
  8. ^ Waite, Robert G.L. The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler New York:1977 New American Library Page 73
  9. ^ Speer, Albert Inside the Third Reich New York:1970--Macmillan P.139
  10. ^ Padfield, Peter Himmler New York:1990--Henry Holt Pages 571-579

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