Hossbach+Memorandum

The **Hossbach Memorandum** was the summary of the [|minutes] of a meeting in [|November] [|1937] between [|Adolf Hitler] and his military leadership, laying out his plans to precipitate an aggressive war that would eventually be known as [|World War II] in [|Europe]. The [|memorandum] was named for the keeper of the minutes of the meeting, Hitler's military [|adjutant], Colonel Hossbach.

Intentionalist and Structuralist Arguments
The Memorandum is often used by Intentionalist [|Historian]s to prove that Hitler had planned the Second World War, and the consequences that followed. However [|Structuralist] Historians would argue that the lack of action by [|Britain] and [|France] against Hitler's invasion of the [|Rhineland] ( [|March] [|1936]) had allowed him to exploit the opportunity, and therefore leading to the Hossbach Memorandum and plans for war.

[|Slide show about the Hossbach Memorandum] [|Hossbach Memorandum] - a translation of what was in the document