A slogan adopted by German nationalists (especially Nazis) in the 1920s and 1930s to justify the need for German territorial expansion into E Europe. They argued that Germany was overpopulated, and needed more agriculturally productive land to guarantee future food supplies for an expanded German population. The slogan Drang nach Osten (drive towards the East) was used to convey the same message.
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Lebensraum was one of the major political ideas of Adolf Hitler, and an important component of Nazi ideology.
Developing these ideas, Nazi theorist Alfred Rosenberg, proposed that the Nazi administrative organization in lands to be conquered from the Soviets be based upon the following Reichskommissariats:
Ostland (Baltic States, Belarus and eastern Poland), Ukraine (Ukraine and adjacent territories), Kaukasus (Caucasus area), Moskau (the Moscow metropolitan area and adjacent European Russia)The Reichskommissariat territories would extend up to the European frontier at the Urals.
Hitler on Lebensraum
In his book "Mein Kampf", Hitler expressed his view that history was an open-ended struggle to the death between races.
Without consideration of traditions and prejudices, Germany must find the courage to gather our people and their strength for an advance along the road that will lead this people from its present restricted living space to new land and soil, and hence also free it from the danger of vanishing from the earth or of serving others as a slave nation. — Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, page 646.
For it is not in colonial acquisitions that we must see the solution of this problem, but exclusively in the acquisition of a territory for settlement, which will enhance the area of the mother country, and hence not only keep the new settlers in the most intimate community with the land of their origin, but secure for the total area those advantages which lie in its unified magnitude. — Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, page 653.
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