Lebensraum

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  • noun. Additional territory deemed necessary to a nation, especially Nazi Germany, for its continued existence or economic well-being.
  • noun. Adequate space in which to live, develop, or function.
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  • noun. Hitherto unoccupied “living space” claimed as one’s rightful domain.
  • Word Usage
    "Also much of the value of the notion of lebensraum is also perfectly in evidence here; i.e. the most fervent supporters of the empire or reich being made wealthy in foreign lands, thus rewarding and encouraging such subservience of the individual will to the geater will, all the avaliable host British territory already of course carved up."
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