Lebensraum (English, name)
expansion: Lebensraum
Senses:
glosses: Territories considered appropriate for German habitation, regarded as vital for the natural flourishing of the German race:
an empire in the form of overseas colonies, in imitation of contemporary powers such as Britain and France.
raw_tags: in early usage
in German history from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth Centuries
glosses: Territories considered appropriate for German habitation, regarded as vital for the natural flourishing of the German race:
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.
tags: Nazism
raw_tags: in later usage
in German history from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth Centuries
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