This is exactly the primary point of my post - yes, the Nazis didn't consider those countries to be "German", but they intended to include them in their conques

This is exactly the primary point of my post - yes, the Nazis didn't consider those countries to be "German", but they intended to include them in their conquests to build "Festung Europa" ("Fortress Europe"). You're right, I didn't differentiate between the areas they aimed to conquer for Lebensraum and the areas they intended to conquer for strategic purposes. Should I have? Why? Should I have gone so far as to mention that while they didn't intend to occupy Britain, they certainly intended to bomb them into submission? "Nazi Germany wanted the German state to include all of Europe" is accurate, just incomplete. They also didn't intend to invade Switzerland or Sweden. They fought alongside the Finns for most of the war, until they fought against them. Hell, you could even go so far as to color the actions of some of the German military staff as anti-Nazi even as they fought against the Allies - Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord, for instance. Things like that are important pieces of information for historians and other interested people, but are they really important enough to cover in a high school history class? Infinite nuance.