Did Hitler and Napoleon Bonaparte have different motives for attempting World Domination?

[smahala1991]

[Anonymous]

I dont think either one wanted World Domination. Napoleon came to power because the other European powers couldn't accept a Republic in Europe and saw France as a threat.

Hitlers whole thing was about a self sufficient nazi Germany that couldn't be strangled by other powers through naval like it was during ww1 by a lack of resources such as oil, has, rubber, metals, food etc and a Germany that was financial independent of international fiance and loans so its economy couldn't collapse and suffer hyper inflation like it did after the Wallstreet crash when Germany couldnt repay its loans which fed into a lot of the antisemitism because a lot of the politicians, stock brokers and bankers in Germany happened to be Jewish. Germany wanted all its old territories back lost after ww1 and unification with Austria but Hiltler's real goal was always the USSR which was rich in oil/gas, metals and food. Even today Russia and Ukraine account for 25% of the world's grain production and Russia exports huge amounts of oil. Hitler believed everything the nazis needed was in the ussr.

A lack of oil and material resources was the reason the empire of Japan attacked pearl harbour.

[Mcdg1456]

Their reasoning was probably similar in some ways but totally different in others. Hitler wanted to make the world a Germanic ethnostate. I do not believe Napoleon had any such ideas of making the world the a French ethnostate. If he did they were never truly voiced or used as a reasoning to attack other nations. They are similar in the way of wanting to satisfy their own ego.

[Jennz6]

I’m sure they did

[dean53AU]

Well for a start, they both had small man syndrome

[msc545]

No idea. Ask them... oh wait...