Ben Wilson

The other reason that he's obsessed with this idea is he was traumatized by fighting

strong, vigorous German men in World War I who were fighting on the American side, right?

Because Germany had been constrained for a long time, overpopulated.

So where did the extra population of Germany go?

They all emigrated to the United States.

And there they became American over the subsequent, you know, whatever, 200 years.

And so that's one of the great ironies of World War II is that you have Germany absolutely devastated

by an American general with the last name Eisenhower.

Could not be a more German last name.

And it's not just people that they're losing, it's not just the quantity, but what kind of person picks up stakes and moves to America?

brave, entrepreneurial, intelligent, proactive people.

This is what Hitler believed.

I mean, he doesn't write this in Mein Kampf, but in some of his personal writings, especially in his unpublished book, he writes about how some of the best German stock had ended up in America.

And so he doesn't want that to happen anymore.

And so he thinks that Germany needs its own frontier where people can expand.

So where is Germany going to get a frontier?

Eastern Europe.

But I mean, there's already people in Eastern Europe, right?

There are Poles, there are Czechs, there are Russians.

So what are you gonna do with all those people?