Definition of "lebensraum" [lebensraum]

• 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. (noun)

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• "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."
• "Then there was one of Max's German commands; "lebensraum" or something similarly linked to the Nazis, which Mr. Justice Eady apparently ruled was indistinct on the tape recording."
• "He gave us at the end a definition of "lebensraum", the objective of Hitlerism at this hour."