INTERNAL POLITICAL SITUATION IN GREAT BRITAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF 1937 AND THE PROSPECTS OF NAZI TERRITORIAL EXPANSION (ON THE REPORTS OF ECONOMIC INFORMATION BUREAU “HAMBURG-BREMEN”)

The article deals with the Nazi political elite’s evaluation of the internal situation in Great Britain based on the reports of economic information bureau “Hamburg-Bremen”. The specified sources stored in the trophy funds of the Russian State Military Archive give a comprehensive account of the military, political and economic status of Great Britain. The author concludes that the peculiarities of the internal political situation in Great Britain could have influenced the acceleration of the Nazi territorial expansion.