According to Goebbels (and who should know the official line better?) the total war was to protect the west against communism ... and they would be protected even if they didn't want Nazi protection.
> " The West is in danger. It makes no difference whether or not their governments and intellectuals realize it or not.
> The German people, in any event, is unwilling to bow to this danger. Behind the oncoming Soviet divisions we see the Jewish liquidation commandos, and behind them terror, the specter of mass starvation and complete anarchy. ... Two thousand years of Western civilization are in danger. ... We could see our venerable part of the world collapse, and bury in its ruins the ancient inheritance of the West. That is the danger we face today.
> My second thesis: Only the German Reich and its allies are in the position to resist this danger. ... Bolshevism set ideological as well as military boundaries, which poses a danger to every nation. The world no longer has the choice between falling back into its old fragmentation or accepting a new order for Europe under Axis leadership. The only choice now is between living under Axis protection or in a Bolshevist Europe."
(That thread contains the original german, e.g. "Abendland", if anyone wishes to double check the translation copied above. I have not verified the transcript against the speech audio, but given that I've recently watched Triumph of the Will and read some of Ezra Pound's extended rants, I intend to consume some non-fascist content for a good long while...)
> " The West is in danger. It makes no difference whether or not their governments and intellectuals realize it or not.
> The German people, in any event, is unwilling to bow to this danger. Behind the oncoming Soviet divisions we see the Jewish liquidation commandos, and behind them terror, the specter of mass starvation and complete anarchy. ... Two thousand years of Western civilization are in danger. ... We could see our venerable part of the world collapse, and bury in its ruins the ancient inheritance of the West. That is the danger we face today.
> My second thesis: Only the German Reich and its allies are in the position to resist this danger. ... Bolshevism set ideological as well as military boundaries, which poses a danger to every nation. The world no longer has the choice between falling back into its old fragmentation or accepting a new order for Europe under Axis leadership. The only choice now is between living under Axis protection or in a Bolshevist Europe."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24137060
(That thread contains the original german, e.g. "Abendland", if anyone wishes to double check the translation copied above. I have not verified the transcript against the speech audio, but given that I've recently watched Triumph of the Will and read some of Ezra Pound's extended rants, I intend to consume some non-fascist content for a good long while...)