The conquest of Lebensraum meant the great war, the war with the ussr.
Since the 1920s, he had advocated seeking additional Lebensraum(living space) for the German people in the east.
I can be proud only… for
openly fighting the Jews… and for cleansing the Lebensraum of the Jewish poison.
I can only be proud for
openly fighting the Jews… and for cleansing the Lebensraum from the Jewish poison.
Declaring that Germany needed Lebensraum or“living space,” Hitler began to test the Western powers
and their willingness to monitor the treaty's provision.
In the East, the intended gains of Lebensraum were never attained as fluctuating front-lines
and Soviet scorched earth policies denied resources to the German invaders.
He bluntly indicated that Germany should resort to an aggressive policy and seize countries like Austria and Czechoslovakia to provide German people enough living space,
or“Lebensraum” as he called it, for a Greater Germany.
Hitler's objectives were to eliminate the Soviet Union as a military power, exterminate Communism,
generate Lebensraum("living space")[112] by dispossessing
the native population[113] and guarantee access to the strategic resources needed to defeat Germany's remaining rivals.