“Lebensraum”. How did we get here?

[u/beautyanddelusion]

I feel sick reading this. How is this okay?

[u/doesntaffrayed]

Wait… wasn’t Lebensraum a Nazi effort that saw Nazi soldiers paired up with “Aryan” women for the sole purpose of creating a new generation of racially pure children?

[u/Thisisme8719 → u/doesntaffrayed]

No, Lebensraum is what it sounds like - "living room." It was part of German nationalism, but it became a foundation of Hitler's ideology to colonize territory in Europe to be a buffer against the spread of Bolshevism and Jewishness (which was synonymous for him), and for space for Aryans to live while displacing the untermenschen who lived there and following what he thought was the natural order. There's also the element of making the empire larger to make it more glorious, but that wasn't distinct from other nationalist and fascist movements with imperial ambitions