In the course of a discussion in the Chancellery on November 5, 1937, documented in the records of Hitler's military adjutant, Colonel Friedrich Hossbach, Hitler presented the military and political leadership with his goals. In Hitler's thinking, Germany's cramped confines and growing population made territorial expansion necessary. From the intellectual standpoint, his remarks were an extension of the imperialist foreign policy that he had revealed in Mein Kampf. In the realities of 1937, they could be construed as a clear-cut intention to go to war in the near future.
