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Anti-Slavic sentiment
- Generalplan OstIn 1939, Adolf Hitler declared that the German people needed living space to survive. This concept of Lebensraum became the core justification for…
- Drang nach OstenPolish journalist Julian Klaczko wrote the phrase Drang nach Osten in 1849. He used it as a citation within his reporting on German expansionist tendencies.
- Racial policy of Nazi GermanyIn 1900, Houston Stewart Chamberlain published The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century. This two-volume work combined Social Darwinism with antisemitism to…
- UntermenschThe American author Lothrop Stoddard published a book titled The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under-man in 1922.
- NazismThe word Nazi began as a derogatory nickname for a backward farmer or peasant in Bavaria. It was a hypocorism, or pet name, derived from the German male name…
- LebensraumIn 1860, the German geographer Oscar Peschel used a specific phrase in his review of Charles Darwin's work to describe how physical geography influences…