What was he planning to do after the “final victory”? Would he go for world conquest or would he be content with his lebensraum? Would Nazi germany survive at peace or would there be a slow liberalization of the Reich? What would Hitler do after all of his goals were accomplished? Would he keep pushing for more and more extreme things like colonizing space or taking over the rest of the world or would he stop? How would the Reich end up? Would it last for a thousand years or would it collapse due to the war ending and leaving a vacuum in the war based economy? Sorry if I’m asking too many questions but this is a question I can’t really find too many answers to.
Hi there,
On /r/AskHistorians we often get questions along the lines of 'what did Hitler think about X' - I mean, as an April Fools joke one year, we changed the sub to /r/AskAboutHitler. However, for better or worse, many of these questions about what Hitler thought are, in the literal sense, unanswerable. We don't know what Hitler thought about many things, and especially about things which were inconsequential for him. Hitler did not keep a diary, and the collections of his private conversations is disjointed and nowhere near complete, being almost completely dependent on the post-war recollection of his intimates (who may also be unreliable in their recollections, especially given those circumstances).
Of course, you may still get an answer to this particular question! However, broadly speaking, proving the negative is very hard (there could be an 1965 article on the topic in Swahili), and if you've asked a question which is almost certainly "We don't know, and he probably didn't care anyways", few historians familiar with the topic matter actually are going to want to put in the necessary gruntwork, doubly so about a man who on a personal level was decidedly uninteresting.
For more information that will be helpful in understanding the context around your question, please read /u/commiespaceinvader's wonderful post on why Hitler's opinions actually aren't that interesting, and please see here for an example of a historian attempting to find evidence about Hitler's thoughts on a topic, but finding that it is likely unanswerable.