Road to WW2 · TURNING POINT · 1937

Hossbach Memorandum (1937)

On the Road to WW2 map as “The Hossbach memorandum”

5 Nov 1937 — At a secret conference lasting four hours, Hitler tells his service chiefs that Germany must seize living space by force, by 1943–45 at the latest. His adjutant’s minutes later become a key exhibit at Nuremberg.

When: 5 Nov 1937
Type: Turning point
Chapter: Rhineland and the Spanish Civil War (chapter 5 of Road to WW2)
Atlas: The Road to War, 1931–1941

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Map showing Hossbach Memorandum (1937), turning point in The Road to War, 1931–1941 — TURNING POINT · THE ROAD TO WAR, 1931–1941

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — dated political boundaries · IGM Fiume, 1:25,000, sheet53B II SE — boundary established in1924 · Natural Earth — physical reference geography · Yugoslavia (1929–1939) location map — international frontier and Adriatic coast · Treaty of Rome (1924), division of Fiume and west-bank boundary · UnitedPress dispatch,21July1936 — Seville rebel stronghold

Source details

Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately.
Istituto Geografico Militare, Fiume (printed1946; 1927 survey with1931–1940 updates), reproduced by Istituto regionale per la storia della Resistenza e dell’Età contemporanea nel Friuli Venezia Giulia. Independent reconstruction from graticule coordinates and boundary observations; archive page reserves artwork rights.. Geographical-fact reconstruction; original archive artwork not distributed
Natural Earth. Public domain
NordNordWest/Wikipedia. Converted from the published SVG to WGS84; eastern Italian regional territory extracted. Source cites Velhagen & Klasings Großer Volksatlas (1938).. CC BY-SA 3.0 Germany
1924 agreement interpreted alongside the regional history institute and City of Rijeka’s explanation of the Donja/Gornja Drenova division.. Historical geographic facts; citation only
UnitedPress dispatch,21July1936 — Seville rebel stronghold. Historical facts consulted; no source artwork or prose republished

July 1936 uses the published early Spanish Civil War state. The source control areas have regional precision.

The eastern Italian frontier uses the published 1930s regional map and a 1924 Fiume boundary reconstruction. Source conquests after April 1941 remain separately dated.

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