Associations to the word «Lebensraum»
Wiktionary
LEBENSRAUM, proper noun. (in German history from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth Centuries) Territories considered appropriate for German annexation, regarded as vital for the natural flourishing of the German race:
LEBENSRAUM, proper noun. (in early usage) an empire in the form of overseas colonies, in imitation of contemporary powers such as Britain and France.
LEBENSRAUM, proper noun. (in later usage) (Nazism) a Großdeutschland obtained through Endoeuropean expansion, usually with a focus upon Drang nach Osten, and varying in its scope from the comparatively modest annexation of the Polish Border Strip to overlordship of the European continent by the conquest of Russian lands as far as the Urals.
LEBENSRAUM, noun. (chiefly with reference to nations and peoples) Hitherto unoccupied “living space” claimed as one’s rightful domain.
Dictionary definition
LEBENSRAUM, noun. Space sought for occupation by a nation whose population is expanding.
Wise words
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