Kammala wannan jumla: A ranar 9 ga Afrilu, sojojin Jamus sun mamaye Denmark da Norway. A wannan ranar Hitler ya sanar da haihuwar Babban Jamusanci Reich, hangen nesan sa na hadaddiyar daular kasashen Jamusawa na Turai wanda Dutch, Flemish, da Scandinavians suka shiga cikin tsarin siyasa "mai tsabta" a karkashin jagorancin Jamus. A watan Mayu na 1940, Jamus ta kai wa Faransa hari, kuma ta ci Luxembourg, Netherlands, da Belgium. Wadannan nasarorin sun sa Mussolini ya sanya Italiya ta haɗu da Hitler a ranar 10 ga Yuni. Faransa da Jamus sun rattaba hannu kan wata yarjejeniya
yarjejeniyar tsagaita wuta a ranar 22 ga Yuni. Kershaw ya lura cewa shaharar Hitler a cikin Jamus <unk> da goyon bayan Jamus ga yakin <unk> ya kai kololuwar lokacin da ya koma Berlin a ranar 6 ga Yuli daga yawon shakatawa na Paris. Bayan gagarumar nasarar da ba a zata ba, Hitler ya daukaka janar-janar goma sha biyu zuwa matsayin marshal na filin a lokacin bikin Marshal na 1940.