I beleive the Germans felt they were very much in a fight for their survival.....and looking at Western Europe today I can see why.
Western Europeans are literally having everything taken from them, their faith, their moral fabric, their traditions, their ability to complain about it, their national identity.......and they are being out bred into the bargain.
We are literally an endangered species because birth rates are so far below what they need to be and government is making it financially impossible to reverse the trend.
Meanwhile the non Europeans are having 4, 5, 6, 7 kid