Did Hitler Want War?

The list is mostly a depressing litany of uncritically repeated wartime propaganda that the victors have enshrined as the official history.

Hitler and Stalin both knew that a clash in the east was inevitable. Seizing the opportunity of the outbreak of hostilities in 1939 to push their frontiers outward in anticipation represented an acceptance of the political reality. Hitler didn't want a war with England and France, whom he saw as natural allies against the Asiatic/Bolshevik threat to Europe--backed, ideally, by the strength of the US from across the ocean. Ironically, this was precisely the state of affairs that came about a decade later in the form of NATO.

As to why he moved against Poland when he did, those...