r/JewsOfConscience • u/beautyanddelusion Jewish Anti-Zionist • 23d ago

Opinion “Lebensraum”. How did we get here?

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I feel sick reading this. How is this okay?

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u/BootyliciousURD 23d ago

For those of us out of the know, what does this mean?

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u/Baka-Onna Vietnamese Gentile Ally 23d ago

Wikipedia:

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, Lebensraum became a geopolitical goal of Imperial Germany in World War I (1914–1918), as the core element of the Septemberprogramm of territorial expansion. The most extreme form of this ideology was supported by the Nazi Party and Nazi Germany. Lebensraum was a leading motivation of Nazi Germany to initiate World War II, and it would continue this policy until the end of the conflict.