Some historians view it as a firm plan for war against Britain and France.
Hitler's first move was rearmament. Germany was the only great power disarmed in the treaty. But Hitler went against the treaty and by 1935 the German army was 550,000 strong, he over-ruled the advice of his economic minister, Schacht, he had advised a slow build-up of arms but Hitler insisted on a speedy build-up which in the long run, caused more economic problems.
Hitler's next step was the German re-militarisation of the Rhineland. This was in direct defiance of the Treaty of Versailles. He defied this directive on the 7 March 1936 when he ordered his troops into the Rhineland. The British and French could have stopped the re-occupation but they were too disorganized, also the British public were sympathetic of the Germans position. They felt that the Germans were only reclaiming land, which was theirs. This move had killed the Locarno treaties and further undermined the authority of the League of Nations. The decision to send troops into the Rhineland was Hitler's alone, taken against the advice of the army high command.
Hitler again broke the terms of the Versailles peace treaty when he unified Germany and Austria in 1938. Hitler claimed he wanted to unify all the German speakers in Europe. Britain and France did little to stop Hitler following their policy of appeasement, which meant they they would concede to Hitler in the hope that he would stop his advance in Europe. As a result of Anschluss, German dominance over central Europe was a fact of life and by this stage Czechoslovakia was under grave threat.
After invading the Sudetenland area of Czechoslovakia in March 1938, Hitler ordered the invasion of the rest of Czechoslovakia in March 1939. Up until this point Hitler had only been concerned about German speaking areas of Europe. This invasion showed Hitler's true aims and his methods of execution.
