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Lebensraum was long, long before the Nazis. It was the goal of Imperial Germany in WW1, and became policy again under the Nazis. Probably dates back to the 19th
by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Lebensraum was long, long before the Nazis. It was the goal of Imperial Germany in WW1, and became policy again under the Nazis. Probably dates back to the 19th century. The economics were irrelevant to the policy.
Economics had nothing to do with pursuing the idea of racial purity and a superior race either. Untermensch goes back to the twenties and intertwines with the US eugenics that the Nazis cribbed from heavily.
Originally from a translation of a 1922 KKK book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untermensch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untermensch
US eugenics influence on Nazi ideas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States#Influence_on_Nazi_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States#...
- LifeLiverTransp 7y agoLebensraum was the problem of not having synthetic fertilizer available- thus you have a ineffective, basically near medieval agriculture, whos output only scales- with area. There where forgotten wars for natural occuring fertilizers at the times of the civil war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Pacific https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Pacific Area only scales, if you conquer it and remove other people. Strange as it sounds, without the retrospect of all that tech that allows our current society (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process) those economic decisions where quite technocratic. Inhuman and monstrous as the outcome was, the decision making was quite technocratic with a tinge of desperation.
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- NeedMoreTea 7y agoDownvoting doesn't change well established, and widely known, history. If there's a factual error, please feel free to point it out.