American Lebensraum

Lebensraum, refers to a policy of Nazi Germany that involved expanding German territories to the East to provide land and material resources for the German people, while driving out Jewish and Slavic people. Its origins revolve aroundthe German Political Philosopher Friedrich Ratzel and the idea of Germanic peoples moving into territories in eastern Europe was not without historical precedent. Since the medieval period, people from German states had moved east as their homelands became overpopulated. It was not until the beginning of the 20th century, however, that the concept of Lebensraum, or “living space,” was formally defined. The term was first used by German geographer and ethnographer Friedrich Ratzel. Influenced by Charles Darwin, Ratzel espoused a form of social Darwinism, applying the idea of survival of the fittest to nation-states. He believed that human migration was necessary to gain the territory and resources required for a people to thrive. To Ratzel, the most powerful and fittest civilizations would prevail. Ratzel also believed that new territories should be colonized by peasant farmers. This agricultural ideal contrasted with the economic imperialism of the time, in which a conquering country exploited territories for raw materials to develop industry. The Pan-German League, a group that sought to unite all people who spoke Germanic languages, seized upon Ratzel’s ideas. In his book Germany and the Next War (1911), Friedrich von Bernhardi proposed that Germany use military force to expand into eastern Europe in pursuit of Lebensraum. The treaties of Brest-Litovsk (1918), which concluded the World War I hostilities between the Central Powers (including Germany) and Soviet Russia, ratified the unfolding German occupation and colonization of the Baltic and present-day Belarus, which together constituted a territory the Germans called Ober Ost. Lebensraum in Hitler’s Germany The Treaty of Versailles, the peace document signed at the end of World War I, stipulated that Germany compensate the Allies for damages suffered in the war. The country was to repay roughly $33 billion in war damages. The treaty also required a large-scale reduction in German military power, including demilitarization of the Rhineland and restrictions on German armaments production. Finally, the treaty reduced the territory—and, in effect, the population—of Germany by about 10 percent and mandated the evacuation of Germans from Ober Ost. Germans found the terms of the treaty to be humiliating as well as both economically and militarily crippling. Trumpand Family are Ethnic German-Slavic Americans who want /need to expand the United States of AMerican via AMERICAN LEBENSRAUM. This starts with Greenland or the 51st State of GreenIsland. PG says why not start with Labradorlandand and NewfouundIsland voluntarily joining America as its 51st and 52nd States? PG BTW www.NEWFOUNDISLAND.COM is mine lol