Holocaust I don t know of any detailed comparison between American use of reservations and the Nazi policy of the Final Solution It s quite commonplace to point out that the general concept of manifest destiny and the displacement of the original population by superior Europeans was part of a widespread social darwinist model at the end of the nineteenth century that provides a model for the Nazi idea of lebensraum There was a these written on that as far back as 1950 Frank Parrella Lebensraum and Manifest Destiny A Comparative Study in the Justification of Expansionism There s also Reginald Horsman Race and Manifest Destiny Ward Churchill makes comparisons between lebenraum and American attitudes to Indians in his books notably A Little Matter of Genocide Holocaust and Denial in the Americas