Claim: Adolf Hitler was in support of German settlement in Eastern Europe.
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.
It stipulated that most of the indigenous populations of Eastern Europe would have to be removed permanently -LRB- either through mass deportation to Siberia , death , or enslavement -RRB- including Polish , Ukrainian , Russian , and other Slavic nations considered racially inferior and non-Aryan.