Hitler was a kook who believed all great civilizations stemmed from a "Germanic element" in them, like he said about Slavs in Mein Kampf. This is the Germanic version of "We Wuz Kangz".

> "In his December 11, 1941, speech, in which Hitler declared war on the United States, he posed as the defender of European civilization against external foes. He rehearsed earlier struggles of the Greeks, Romans, and Germanic peoples against their enemies. He explained, “There was a time when Europe was that Greek island into which Nordic tribes penetrated in order to light the flame for the first time that has since slowly but steadily begun to enlighten the world of man.” Thus he clearly ascribed Germanic origins to Greek culture. After the Greeks the cultural torch was passed to the Romans and later to the Germanic peoples, who were the primary representatives of European civilization."

— Richard Weikart, Hitler’s Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress

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Hitler always wanted to annex  Czechoslovakia.
He talks about annexing Czechoslovakia in the Hossbach memorandum.
https://ghdi.ghi-dc.org/docpage.cfm?docpage_id=2322
It is important to note the reason that Hitler gave in the Hossbach memorandum is not the discrimination against Germans but: "the annexation of Czechoslovakia and Austria would mean an acquisition of foodstuffs for 5 to 6 million people"

Even 8 months before the Hossbach memorandum Hitler confided to Goebbels about annexation of Czechoslovakia.

> Late one night in mid-March 1937... Hitler told his propaganda minister that he intended to incorporate Austria and Czechoslovakia into the Reich. “We need both to round off our territory,” Goebbels reported Hitler saying. “And we’ll get them…When their citizens come to Germany, they’ll be crushed by the greatness and power of the Reich…Hence the Führer’s gigantic construction plans. He’ll never give them up.”

Source: Volker Ullrich, Hitler Ascent. (Goebbels, Tagebücher, part 1, vol. 4, p. 52 (entry for 15 March 1937)

Also note that neither in the Hossbach memorandum nor in Goebbels Diaries is Hitler talking about Sudetenland, where the German minority was present; instead, Hitler is talking about annexing all of Czechoslovakia.

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> "Giovanni Gentile, the main philosopher of Fascism, believed that––not only did fascist doctrine achieve the only feasible form of Socialism––but Fascist Philosophy had become a form of Practical Marxism"

What does this even mean? What I take it to mean is that Gentile's "practical Marxism" is little more than tricking the citizens into relinquishing most economic ownership & control to the State by leaving a thin veneer of private ownership & property within their heavily socialized & regimented State-run economy so as to keep the plebs on the plantation. These bureaucrats understand that most people only work hard with the hope of obtaining private property. Why else do people work? Nobody would take the risk of starting a company if there was no reward at the end of it, that being private property. So the "practical" part here was using rhetoric that slightly distinguished itself from the traditional anti-private property Marxist-Leninists by acting like they wouldn't take all your property & socialize it right away. But since "nothing can be outside the State," as Mussolini famously said, if your business became successful enough to catch the State's attention it would either be socialized or taxed/regulated to such a degree that it becomes little more than a State asset with a pseudo private manager.

"The "atrocity reports" in August 1939 were largely based on pure invention; they were hardly anything more than imaginative construction of the Nazi propaganda machine."
— Daniel Brewing, Murderers are Other People. “Polish Atrocities” and the Legitimization of Nazi Violence (University of Illinois Press)

https://telegra.ph/Hitler-did-not-care-about-the-Ethnic-Germans-rather-he-only-cared-to-conquer-territories-05-17

Hitler even said the Reds were justified to pillage and desecrate:

> "I must say, in general, that during the civil war the idealism was not on Franco's side; it was to be found among the Reds. Certainly they pillaged and desecrated, but so did Franco’s men, without having any good reason for it — the Reds were working off centuries of hatred for the Catholic Church, which always oppressed the Spanish people. When I think of that I under­stand a good many things. Franco knows perfectly well why he objected only half a year ago to our employing these Spanish Reds. “But one of these days” — Hitler stabbed the air with his finger — “one of these days we’ll be able to make use of them. When we call it quits with Franco. Then we’ll let them go home. And you’ll see what happens then! The whole thing will start all over again. But with us on the op­posite side. I don’t give a damn about that. Let him find out what I can be like!”" - Source

So Hitler was privately threatening to use the Spanish communists against Franco if Franco didn't do what Hitler wanted geopolitically. Much of the disdain stemmed from Franco's neutral stance in the war. So these Nazis are never truly your friend they're always plotting some stab-in-the-back unless you be their geopolitical slave.

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These are the expansion routes Germany took once war was declared. Does this seem neutral or defensive in any way?

The very title 'Forced War' is totally demolished by none other than Hitler himself in his November 1939 speech, where he clearly says he always wanted to wage war.

> Hitler wanted the war. It was the logical end to the path which he had taken since being appointed chancellor on 30 January 1933, and upon which conservative elites – generals, diplomats and industrial arms manufacturers – with few exceptions had willingly followed him. As the dictator himself emphasised in a speech to his commanders a few weeks after the conclusion of the Polish campaign in the autumn of 1939, he would never have undertaken to ‘educate the people, build up the Wehrmacht and rearm’ if he had not had the will to use force ‘right from the beginning’ [¹]. There was no room for the idea of lasting peace in Hitler’s social-Darwinist world view. Peace, Hitler often reiterated privately, would only ‘lead humanity into a quagmire’. Every generation, he believed, had to ‘steel itself anew and collect new experiences’.[²]
The only fault that can be attributed to the Western powers is that they failed to stay Hitler’s arm while that was still possible. They had tried everything they could, to the point of self-abnegation, to tame his drive for expansion in the interests of preserving peace in Europe. It was not until the policy of appeasement had definitively failed in the spring of 1939 that the Western powers decided to confront Germany’s Führer – too late to undermine Hitler’s determination to wage war, if indeed that drive could have been checked under any circumstances. By contrast, in order to buy time for a conflict it knew was coming, the Soviet Union temporarily allied itself with its mortal enemy and became complicit, in the short term, in Hitler’s policies of aggression.

— Vᴏʟᴋᴇʀ Uʟʟʀɪᴄʜ, Hɪᴛʟᴇʀ Dᴏᴡɴꜰᴀʟʟ: 1939-45
[1] Hɪᴛʟᴇʀ’s sᴘᴇᴇᴄʜ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴀɴᴅᴇʀs, 23 Nᴏᴠᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 1939; Gʀᴏsᴄᴜʀᴛʜ, Tᴀɢᴇʙüᴄʜᴇʀ ᴇɪɴᴇs Aʙᴡᴇʜʀᴏꜰꜰɪᴢɪᴇʀs, ᴘ. 415. A ᴅɪꜰꜰᴇʀᴇɴᴛ ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ ʜᴀᴅ Hɪᴛʟᴇʀ sᴀʏɪɴɢ, ‘Tʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴄɪsɪᴏɴ ᴛᴏ sᴛʀɪᴋᴇ ᴏᴜᴛ ᴀʟᴡᴀʏs ᴇxɪsᴛᴇᴅ ᴡɪᴛʜɪɴ ᴍᴇ.’ Dᴏᴍᴀʀᴜs, Hɪᴛʟᴇʀ, ᴠᴏʟ. 2, ᴘᴀʀᴛ 1, ᴘ. 1423.
[2] Gᴏᴇʙʙᴇʟs, Tᴀɢᴇʙüᴄʜᴇʀ, ᴘᴀʀᴛ I, ᴠᴏʟ. 8, ᴘᴘ. 332ꜰ. (ᴇɴᴛʀʏ ꜰᴏʀ 18 Sᴇᴘᴛ. 1940). Iɴ Mᴀʀᴄʜ 1939 ɪɴ Sᴀɴ Fʀᴀɴᴄɪsᴄᴏ, Hɪᴛʟᴇʀ’s ꜰᴏʀᴍᴇʀ ᴀᴅᴊᴜᴛᴀɴᴛ Fʀɪᴛᴢ Wɪᴇᴅᴇᴍᴀɴɴ ʀᴇᴄᴀʟʟᴇᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅɪᴄᴛᴀᴛᴏʀ ꜰʀᴇǫᴜᴇɴᴛʟʏ sᴀʏɪɴɢ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ sᴜᴍᴍᴇʀ ᴏꜰ 1938: ‘Eᴠᴇʀʏ ɢᴇɴᴇʀᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ɴᴇᴇᴅs ᴛᴏ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ɢᴏɴᴇ ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ ᴀ ᴡᴀʀ.’ BA Kᴏʙʟᴇɴᴢ, N 1720/4.

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