Racial Impact Of The Lebensraum Policy

A Historical Analysis of the Racial Impact of the Lebensraum Policy in the Territorial Expansion of the Nazi Regime during World War II

This historical study will define the historical background of Germany’s racial policy of Lebensraum to understand the motives for territorial expansion in Eastern Europe. Hitler’s Nazi regime utilized this ideological policy during WWII, yet it was primarily created during the late 19th century and the early 20th century. Hitler expanded on the idea of promoting colonial settlements for Germans through the Lebensraum in order to rationalize invasions of territories in Poland, the Ukraine, and eventually, Russia. The Third Reich believed in the racial superiority of Germans through the promotion of an Aryan
This ideology promoted a racial ideology related to the superiority of the German peoples, as well as the right to colonize countries that were deemed suitable for German settlement. Ratzel’s idea of Lebensraum would eventually become part of the national consciousness during the early 20th century during the rise of the Kaiser’s power and the arms race that led up to World War I. Lebensraum had become based on proving the biological superiority to other races, such as the Slavic peoples, that formed the basis of a land-based rationalization for
Hitler would rely heavily on the Lebensraum as the motivating ideology of the invading forces, which propelled a massive form of racialized German nationalism as the central factor in the invasion process. Certainly, Hitler’s regime relied on a greater focus on a centralized administrative implementation of the racial ideology against Slavic peoples living in Eastern Europe, which resulted in a more highly evolved version of German racial superiority than what was seen in the early 20th century under the