:: cracks knuckles :: okay, Michael's son, let's talk about Nazism's embrace of autarky and Friedrich Ratzel
https://twitter.com/michaelpreis/status/1412797035951099904
The extremely short answer is that Hitler absolutely believed in an ultimate conflict with so called "Judeo-Bolshevism" (in 1924 he argued this could take place with British support) that would eliminate all Jewish "influence" (and people) and give Germany living space 
He was not the first person to come up with this idea -- Ratzel argued in 1901 that nation-states should be able to entirely rely on their own resources and territory (he cited Manifest Destiny) in order to survive
A funny thing people did even in the 1930s was thinking Hitler was speaking seriously not literally about a lot of things and well turns out vox.com/2015/2/11/8016…
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