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Planning for the Neuordnung had already begun long before the start of World War II, but Adolf Hitler proclaimed a "European New Order" publicly on 30 January 1941: "The year 1941 will be, I am convinced, the historical year of a great European New Order!"[1][non-primary source needed]
Historians remain divided as to the ultimate New Order goals – some believe that the New Order was to be limited to Nazi German domination of Europe, while others see it as a springboard for eventual world conquest and the establishment of a world government under German control.[4]
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^Yoder, Fred Roy (1944). Introductory Sociology. State College of Washington. p. 248. Retrieved 12 August 2023. [...] expansion policies and practices of Germany in southeastern Europe and Japan in Asia were likewise a major cause of World War II.