Lebensraum
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Lebensraum, literally meaning "living space" in German, was a major policy of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. The basic policy was that the German people needed "living space" in Eastern Europe to repopulate the land with Germanic people. Lebensraum was the ideological motivation behind Hitler's territorial expansion eastwards. The eventual goal of the policy was to create a strong agrarian middle class of loyal Germans by granting veterans farmland in the new territories, simultaneously suppressing the local people and weakening the labor movement.