Drang nach Osten
As early as 1925, Hitler suggested in "Mein Kampf" that the German people needed "Lebensraum" ("living space") to achieve German expansion eastwards ("Drang nach Osten") at the expense of the "inferior Slavs". Hitler believed that "the organization of a Russian state formation was not the result of the political abilities of the Slavs in Russia, but only a wonderful example of the state-forming efficacity of the German element in an inferior race."