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There's some indications he always was, and his 1940-1942 epoch was simply realpolitik. Alternatively, he was just extremely bitter with how the UK-France-Spain-Italy acted in the course of the war.

It's hard to say, Hitler in 1940-1942 was more than happy to cater to Vichy, Italian, etc colonial desires but later on was making very strong Anti-Colonial pronouncements and giving thought to views that suggest he could go either way. Ironically, I think it depends on which way the...

Yeah that's what I was getting at, still in but keeping an arms distance to establish its own independence. Such a bloc would be more comparable to NATO than the Warsaw Pact, as France, Italy and Spain have the means of asserting themselves in a way Slovakia, Hungary, etc could not.

Most of those wildly expansionist plans came into consideration post 1942, although the orange area was under contention until 1941, then quietly dropped from what I understand. German planning was not really unified in this respect, which makes it difficult to deduce exactly what was most...

I'd imagine Vichy France would end up something like Fascist Italy in the long run, while being like the RSI in the short run. They'd have to give up Alsace-Lorraine, which was acceptable to domestic audiences in 1940-1941 by most accounts given how decisive the defeat was, but they could be...

Depends on how the Germans win and when they do so.