TY - BOOK AU - WRIGHT J.R.C.(Jonathan Richard Cassé) TI - Germany and the origins of the Second World War SN - 9780333495568 (pbk.) : PY - 2007/// CY - Basingstoke PB - Palgrave Macmillan, KW - WORLD WAR, 1939-1945 KW - CAUSES KW - GERMANY KW - POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT KW - 1933-1945 KW - FOREIGN RELATIONS N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Suggests that Hitler's motivation for starting the Second World War was primarily based on his view "of history as a ceaseless struggle between races for domination" (author's introduction). Thus foreign policy was about empire building in the form of expansionism which in turn served as the vehicle for racial integrity and Germany's rightful place as a great power in the center of Europe ER -