On 28 September 1940, the Gauleiter Gustav Simon, regional head of the Nazi regime in Luxembourg, gives an address on the Nazi concept of a united Europe.

‘Don’t wait any longer if you want to be part of the family ...’ On 20 December 1941,Je suis partout, the leading weekly publication of the collaborationist press in France, publishes a cartoon condemning those (Jews, Gaullists and Freemasons) who it sees as preventing France from joining the new Europe. In the foreground: Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy surround the new Europe, joined in the background by other countries with totalitarian regimes.

In April 1942, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) sets out its vision of a reorganised Europe and argues in favour of a European economic area led by Nazi Germany.

In 1943, Walther Funk, Nazi Germany’s Minister for Economic Affairs and Head of the Reichsbank, outlines his ideas on the creation of a European economic area controlled by Nazi Germany.

In 1943, Horst Jecht, Professor of Economics at the Berlin School of Economics, presents Hitler’s Germany as the champion of European unification and lauds the values of a Western civilisation threatened by Bolshevism and British and American imperialism.

In 1943, Heinrich Hunke, Economic Affairs Adviser to the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP), considers the concept of Europe and argues in favour of a European economic area controlled by Nazi Germany.

On 25 August 1944, British cartoonist David Low illustrates the failure of the concept of Europe as envisaged by Nazi Germany.

Italian poster calling for the establishment of a ‘New Europe’ based on the power of the workers and not serving capitalism and Judaism.