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The end result of this belief was [[World War II]] which, in addition to taking the lives of close to 50 million people, was the most expensive war in history (Weatherford 2009, 249). Hitler was confident that the [[Aryan|superior German race]] would prevail against [[Russia]] because the Russians were an inferior [[Slavic]] people. [[Adolf Hitler]] and Nazi racial theorists considered the Slavs as ''[[Untermensch]]en'' (subhumans);<ref>[http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/holoprelude/deruntermensch.html Der Untermensch ("The subhuman")], Editor: [[The Reichsführer-SS]], [[SS]] Office, [[Berlin]], 1942. Revised: SS Office - Training Office, SS Hauptsturmführer King, SS-Obersturmführer Ludwig Pröscholdt in conjunction with the Association of Graphic Jupp Daehler.<br>''The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team has faithfully translated this infamous [[Nazi]] text from the original versions printed in both the [[German]] and [[Russian]] language. The purpose of this translation is for readers to understand the methods in which the Nazi [[propaganda]] machine would seek to dehumanize the victims of its [[genocide|genocidal actions]].''</ref> they were viewed as an inferior race that could not create [[civilization]] and were actually a danger to it (Bendersky 2021, 151). As Lund University Professor Christian Abramsson wrote, the key event in shaping German Lebensraum "was the publication of [[Charles Darwin]]’s ''On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life...."''}}

The end result of this belief was [[World War II]] which, in addition to taking the lives of close to 50 million people, was the most expensive war in history (Weatherford 2009, 249). Hitler was confident that the [[Aryan|superior German race]] would prevail against [[Russia]] because the Russians were an inferior [[Slavic]] people. [[Adolf Hitler]] and Nazi racial theorists considered the Slavs as ''[[Untermensch]]en'' (subhumans);<ref>[http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/holoprelude/deruntermensch.html Der Untermensch ("The subhuman")], Editor: [[The Reichsführer-SS]], [[SS]] Office, [[Berlin]], 1942. Revised: SS Office - Training Office, SS Hauptsturmführer King, SS-Obersturmführer Ludwig Pröscholdt in conjunction with the Association of Graphic Jupp Daehler.<br>''The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team has faithfully translated this infamous [[Nazi]] text from the original versions printed in both the [[German]] and [[Russian]] language. The purpose of this translation is for readers to understand the methods in which the Nazi [[propaganda]] machine would seek to dehumanize the victims of its [[genocide|genocidal actions]].''</ref> they were viewed as an inferior race that could not create [[civilization]] and were actually a danger to it (Bendersky 2021, 151). As Lund University Professor Christian Abramsson wrote, the key event in shaping German Lebensraum "was the publication of [[Charles Darwin]]’s ''On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life...."''}}

Russians were alleged to be an inferior race that could not create [[civilization]].  

Russians were alleged to be an inferior race that could not create [[civilization]].<ref>[[Adolf Hitler]], [[Mein Kampf]], Excerpts about Culture (1925–26), published in: German History in Documents and Images, <https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/nazi-germany-1933-1945/ghdi:document-5138> [August 07, 2025].</ref>

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