LebensraumPolicy

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LebensraumPolicy refers to Nazi Germany’s expansionist doctrine that sought territorial conquest in Eastern Europe to provide “living space” for Germans, underpinning brutal occupation, ethnic cleansing, and mass atrocities during World War II.

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Lebensraum doctrine 1

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi policy
expansionist doctrine
geopolitical ideology
appliedInRegion Baltic states
Belarus
Eastern Europe
Poland
Soviet Union
Ukraine
associatedWithOrganization Nazi Party
SS
Wehrmacht
consequence ethnic cleansing
forced displacement of millions
genocide
mass atrocities
widespread famine and exploitation
coreGoal German territorial conquest
acquisition of living space for Germans
territorial expansion in Eastern Europe
formulatedIn Mein Kampf
hasAlternativeName Lebensraum policy
living space policy
policy of Lebensraum
historicalAssessment central component of Nazi aggression
crime against humanity
ideologicallyBasedOn Lebensraum concept
implementedThrough colonization by ethnic Germans
ethnic cleansing
forced population transfers
mass murder
military invasion
occupation regimes
justifiedBy German racial superiority doctrine
racist ideology
social Darwinism
völkisch nationalism
linkedTo GeneralplanOstPolicies
surface form: Generalplan Ost

Germanization policies
Holocaust
Nazi war of annihilation in the East
opposedBy Allies of World War II
surface form: Allied powers
promotedBy Adolf Hitler
Nazi Germany
startTime 1933
targets Jewish populations
Sinti
surface form: Roma and Sinti

Slavic populations
other non-German ethnic groups
timePeriod World War II
interwar period

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GeneralplanOstPolicies basedOnIdeology LebensraumPolicy
this entity surface form: Lebensraum doctrine
SovietPrisonersOfWar ideologicalContext LebensraumPolicy