Hitler had no real plan. He waited to see what would happen and then took advantage. It was the Austrian prime minister, not Hitler, who launched the Austrian crisis. It was Britain which took the lead in breaking Czechoslovakia. It was the British in 1939 who gave Hitler the impression that they would react if he took over Poland. Others gave Hitler the opportunities and he seized them. The blame for the war can be put on the European leaders who failed to deal with him properly