Lebensraum
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"Lebensraum" was a Nazi German ideology claiming that the German people needed to expand eastward to gain sufficient territory and resources for their survival and growth. This concept became a central justification for Nazi aggression and territorial conquest during World War II, particularly driving plans for expansion into Eastern Europe.
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- Origins
- Geopolitics
- Racial ideology
- Prussian policy
- First World War nationalist premise
- Interwar propaganda
- Hitlerite doctrine of {{lang|de|Lebensraum}}
- {{lang|de|Mein Kampf}} sequel, 1928
- Foreign-policy prime directive
- Ideological motives
- {{lang|de|Lebensraum}} in practice: the Second World War
- Classification under the laws in the annexed territories
- Implementation
- East–West frontier
- Historical retrospective
- Scale
- Ideology
- Factor that played a role in Germany's defeat
- Contemporary usages
- See also
- Footnotes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|Proposed supposed boundaries of the planned "Greater Germanic Reich," including planned post-war eastward expansions of Reichskommissariat|Reichskomissariats.
'''' (, ) is a German concept of expansionism and Völkisch'' nationalism, the philosophy and policies of which were common to German politics from the 1890s to the 1940s. First popularized around 1901, became a geopolitical goal of the German Empire in World War I (1914–1918), as the core element of the of territorial expansion. The most extreme form of this ideology was promoted and initiated by the Nazi Party, that had ruled Nazi Germany, whose ultimate goal of which was to establish a Greater German Reich. was a leading motivation of Nazi Germany to initiate World War II, and it would continue this policy until the end of the conflict.