Comments by "Barsukas" (@barsukascool) on "Himmler's INSANE Reason for Recruiting non-Germans in the Waffen-SS" video.
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@ImperialKnight86 The territories Hitler desired to annex can be figured out examining historical sources like speeches, from which we can understand the beliefs of certain people; as well as events on the ground, like the occupation and administration of certain territories. It is also important to note, that Hitler not only wanted to annex these areas, but also fully integrate them into Germany. The integration would be violent and would include the deportation and genocide of Eastern populations - Balts and Slavs (Poles, Russians, Ukranians, Belarusians, Lithuanians, Latvians and local Jews), and the deportations or assimilations of others (Estonians, Tatars, French, Italians (i.e. not Slavs or Balts). These are the territories Hitler likely desired to annex:
The eastern countries (justified through Lebensraum):
Czechia, Poland (except small Slovakian territories), Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine (except Romanian territories up to the Southern Bug) and Russia up to (likely) some defendable terrain (likely the Ural mountains)(except Finish territories - Kola peninsula and Karelia). There are no known plans for Slovakia. It would likely be annexed by Hungary in the future or be partitioned by Hungary and Germany.
The Germanic speakers (justified through the idea of all Germanic speakers being part of the Aryan race):
1. Scandinavia:
Denmark, Sweden and Norway (the latter two may be reduced in size to further reward Finland, but not necesarily). Denmark’s possesions in Iceland and Greenland may have been desired mostly as strategic bases by Hitler, but they would likely not be aquired even after a potential victory by Germany of World War II, due to British and/or American occupation.
2. The Benelux and France:
Hitler’s ambitions in the West expanded further than the recently lost Alsace-Lorraine and Eupen-Malmedy. Even during the war, he annexed the linguistically close to Germany, Luxembourg, but he also desired what he considered to be Germans in the Netherlands (the Dutch) and the Flemish parts of Belgium which were also historically considered Dutch. Beyond that, he also considered the Northern region of France, south of Belgium, up to river Somme and teritory east of that to be gallicized Germans, because of the Holy Roman Empire and the Frankish Empire existing in those territories in the past. During the war, there was an administrative zone called ‘zone réservée’, which was supposed to be resetlled with Germans, spanning Northern and Eastern France. So, in the west Hitler wanted to annex Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands and all of ‘zone réservée’.
The south:
In 1938, Hitler annexed Austria, but he also desired to annex most of Switzerland, including the German speakers and the French speakers (to be assimilated). He would also, likely, allow Italy to annex teritories in the south of Switzerland - Grissons, Ticino and Valais. Hitler also desired the historically Austrian-controlled Tyrol, Slovenia and Istria and the Italian provinces between them - Belluno and Friuli. Tyrol, Slovenia, Istria, Belluno and Friuli were already annexed by Hitler during the war.
In conclusion, Hitler desired to vastly expand Germany and include many teritories spanning up to the Ural mountains in the East, Norway and Sweden in the South, river Somme and all the rest of ‘zone réservée’ in the West and Switzerland, Slovenia and Tyrol in the South.
TL;DR:
Hitler desired to annex these teritories into Germany:
All of the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Czechia, Belarus, most of Norway Sweden, Slovenia, Poland, Ukraine, Switzerland, some of Russia, France, Italy, Croatia, Slovakia. I think that’s all.
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