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Summary
Brendan Simms argues that Hitler's central motivation was not anti-Semitism or Lebensraum for its own sake, but the fear that an Anglo-American-led global order would encircle and dominate Germany. The book reframes Hitler's career as a strategic response to the perceived threat of international capitalism and liberal democracy, with racial ideology serving as a means to a geopolitical end. Simms places Hitler within a longer tradition of German anxiety about globalization and Anglo-Saxon hegemony.