In what ways was Nazism a failure and success to the foreign policy goals of Nazi Germany?

Answer 1

Nazism relies on the threat and use of violence as the primary means to achieve foreign policy objectives. While able to initially annex Austria and the Sudetenland and eventually Czechia (Slovakia becoming a German puppet state) via fear of another war similar to WW1 among the France and Britain. It quickly turned the major powers in Europe and the United States against them once these powers thought themselves in a better position to fight or Germany declared war on them. The problem eventually becomes the constant need for territorial expansion. For example the only way to achieve Lebensraum was to attack and invade the Soviet Union. In order to secure their new "Living Space", which they see being under threat from at home and abroad, they constantly need feed their military industrial complex and economy via conquest, which included slave labor, murder and theft of property.