Lebensraum

Throughout the different ages of the world, we have seen many changes and have seen many themes that seem to reappear. Some of these themes are racism, imperialism, and genocide. In Sven Lindqvist’s book, “Exterminate All the Brutes!”, he writes about the trends that characterized the nineteenth century in Africa while comparing them to other historical events across the globe. After reading this book, we can see what imperialism, racism, and genocide has caused to play a role in influencing the world we live in today by looking at the past events in history related to more present ones. This is important because we have noticed many events thought to have been caused by one person is really a recurring event. While reading this book, a reader will be taken through three journeys. The first is Lindqvist’s own voyage through the Sahara. When describing his excursion, one will learn about the situation of the people in Africa. Including their social and economic situation, their lifestyle, and their corrupt officials (Lindqvist 2-34). The second journey is mainly the time when the author explains his main topic of how racism first came about in Europe and its major rise in the twentieth century. Lindqvist references Joseph Conrad’s book, Heart of Darkness, to illustrate this topic (Lindqvist 36-88). The last voyage is the antiquity of racism in Europe. Beginning with the colonization of Europeans in Africa and what drove them to use larger sections of the African continent.…

Symbolism of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” The short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is about a small town that has a lottery, on June 27th, every year. All the citizens seem excited and amped up for this yearly occasion that Mr. Summers is in charge of. Though as the story progresses and comes to an end, it can be seen that this lottery is not something you want to win. These events of the story closely resemble the actions that took place in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. With the way…

It can be noted that the geopolitical theories of Halford J. Mackinder influenced Karl Haushofer’s investigations of Mackinder’s “heartland” theory and other studies that Nazi Germany would later employ in their political campaign from the 1930’s until 1945. Mackinder’s “heartland” theory suggests that parts of eastern Europe and Asia make up for a continental piece of land known as the “heartland”, which after examination and study, Mackinder was convinced that it provided that most national…

Hitler wanted more space for the select German race, and Jews and other races such as Gypsies were taking that space for Germans and polluting the German race (Lebensraum). Since his youth, the Nazi dictator believed that Germany had a “tightly packed radical core” and were entitled to “greater living space than in the case of other peoples.” On November 5, 1937, Herr Fuhrer outlined plans to German army officers. He pointed out two major obstacles in the way of Lebensraum: Britain and France.…

Hitler’s utopian ideal of Lebensraum (‘living space’) for an expanding Aryan race. In Mein Kampf, Hitler recognised the centrality of Lebensraum to the Nazis ultimate goals as he argued: ‘only an adequate large space on this earth assures a nation freedom of existence.’ From this, the pursuit of Lebensraum required territorial expansion which would be accomplished through military force. Economic decisions became geared towards preparing the country for future continental wars. One of the…

Why did Nazi Germany invade the Soviet Union in 1941? Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 for several reasons, the most extenuating factor in the decision making process to invade the Soviet Union was the desire for Lebensraum. I will also be taking into consideration there standing in the Second World War at that time, the economic factors, Hitler’s racial ideology and his hatred of communism. I will then come to a conclusion upo my finding summarising the reasons behind the invasion of…

Germany from 1935 to 1939. Germany wanted more lebensraum (living space). Hitler took over the Saarland in 1935, the Rhineland in 1936, Austria and Sudetenland in 1938 and Czechoslovakia in 1939. Then he could not invade other countries because World War Two started in 1939. This is significant to Hitler because it increased the number of his Nazi followers by giving Germans what they wanted (lebensraum). More lebensraum meant more job opportunities and more money for Germans. Money is what they…

supremacist attitude for his government. During World War II, these attitudes carried over to Hitler’s military strategy in the form of Lebensraum, the belief that the German race required an addition of geographic in order to survive. Due to this perceived need for conquest, Hitler evoked the image of Volkstumkampf, the belief that Germany was involved in an ethnical war to preserve the superiority of the Aryan blood. Due to the specific, militant attitudes of Volkstumkampf and Lebensraum,…

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territory in order to prevent this eventuality. However, plans were also made for expansion without acquiring new territory – this would be done by eradicating the classes and races considered to be inferior, allowing the upper class and Aryan so-called “master race” to occupy the space freed up by this action. The acquisition of living space through the act of war was seen as a “biological necessity”, and was then carried out in several places. Germany chose to occupy and then colonise…