Claim: Adolf Hitler discouraged settler colonialism.
Evidence: Hitler sought Lebensraum -LRB- `` living space '' -RRB- for the German people in Eastern Europe.
The German concept of Lebensraum -LRB- -LSB- ˈleːbənsˌʁaʊm -RSB- , `` living space '' -RRB- refers to policies and practices of settler colonialism which proliferated in Germany from the 1890s to the 1940s.