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'''Lebensraum''' was a [[German]] term made popular by [[Adolf Hitler]] and the [[Nazis]], which literally means "living room" or "living space".  Lebensraum was a policy of expanding the territory of [[Germany]], particularly to the east in what is modern [[Poland]], [[Belarus]], and Western [[Ukraine]]. Under Hitler's rule, lebensraum became the political rationale behind the Nazi conquest of territories lost by the [[Treaty of Versailles]], which ended [[World War I]].

'''Lebensraum''' was a [[German]] term made popular by [[Adolf Hitler]] and the [[Nazis]], which literally means "living room" or "living space".  Lebensraum was a policy of expanding the territory of [[Germany]], particularly to the east in what is modern [[Poland]], [[Belarus]], and Western [[Ukraine]] where many atrocities were committed and whole villages wiped out. Under Hitler's rule, lebensraum became the political rationale behind the Nazi conquest of territories lost by the [[Treaty of Versailles]], which ended [[World War I]].

Lebensraum has some roots in [[Malthusianism]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=d72rAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA11 Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=WkyPkLzLyrcC&pg=PA24 The Return of Geopolitics in Europe?: Social Mechanisms and Foreign Policy Identity Crises]</ref>  Hitler wrote extensively about "living space" in his [[Zweites Buch]](second book).<ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/article/423959/yale-professor-explains-hitlers-malthusianism-thinks-theres-something-it-robert Yale Professor Explains Hitler’s Malthusianism, Thinks There’s Something to It]</ref>

Lebensraum has some roots in [[Malthusianism]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=d72rAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA11 Global Population: History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=WkyPkLzLyrcC&pg=PA24 The Return of Geopolitics in Europe?: Social Mechanisms and Foreign Policy Identity Crises]</ref>  Hitler wrote extensively about "living space" in his [[Zweites Buch]](second book).<ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/article/423959/yale-professor-explains-hitlers-malthusianism-thinks-theres-something-it-robert Yale Professor Explains Hitler’s Malthusianism, Thinks There’s Something to It]</ref> In ''Hitler's Table Talk'', minutes of Hitler's wartime dinner conversations, Hitler claimed Russia could be conquered up to the [[Ural]]s, with small contingent SS force guarding the new Reich beyond the Urals.  Hitler also spoke of claiming the [[Crimea]] as a "German Riviera" resort.

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