Lebensraum Flashcards
What is lebensraum?
living space from an eastward expansion- it was an aim that helped solve the internal problems making it become militarily stronger and economically self sufficient
Where would hitler get this from?
Living space would come from Eastern Europe, Russia, formed the core of Hitler’s idea, and shaped his foreign policy after his take-over of power in Germany in 1933.
Lebensraum was first created by who?
German geographer, Friedrich Ratzel.
What was Ratzels theory?
people’s success is primarily determined by their adaptation to geographic circumstances.he said migration was a crucial factor in social adaptation and cultural change. Hitler used this
What is Volksgemeinshaft?
The idea of a community based on racially pure Germans- this links both nazi racial policy and lebensraum
Hitler quote on mein kämpf
“people of he same blood should be in the same reich”
Why did hitler want to abolish ToV?
So he could expand germanys territory with austria and sudetenland
what was Operation Barberossa?
22 june- 5 dec 1941 it was a code name for the invasion of the soviet union
when was the nazi soviet pact?
23 august 1923
what were weimar ambitions?
to annex polish territory
What was the anti comintern pact?
1936
it was a pact between germany and Japan against communist countries specifically Soviet union
what were the nuremberg laws?
race based laws that deprived jews of rights- severely dehumanised
What was the havaara agreement?
an agreement between Germany and the Jewish to relocate jews
What was the Madagascar Plan?
it was an agreement between germans and jews. Jews were to be relocated to the island of Madagascar in Africa. Hitler said it would solve the ‘jewish question’
what was the holocaust and the final solution?
Mass execution of jews in camps
