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The 15 pages that link to Lebensraum, each with the reason it gives.

• Operation BarbarossaRelated: The pursuit of eastern land and resources helped motivate the invasion.

• Eastern FrontRelated: It framed the invasion as a project of colonization as well as military conquest.

• Nazi propagandaRelated: Expansionist propaganda presented conquest as a national necessity.

• Generalplan OstRelated: It supplied the expansionist rationale for taking Eastern European land and remaking it for German settlement.

• German invasion of the Soviet UnionRelated: It supplied an expansionist rationale for seizing Soviet lands.

• Friedrich RatzelBroader topic: Ratzel used the term for the spatial conditions a state needed to sustain its growth.

• NazismRelated: It translated racial hierarchy into a program of conquest and settlement.

• Great Patriotic WarNarrower topic: It supplied an ideological rationale for seizing Soviet land.

• Nazi racial ideologyRelated: Racial hierarchy framed conquest and displacement as necessary for German settlement.

• Hunger PlanNarrower topic: The Hunger Plan served the material aims of an imperial project in the east.

• Pan-GermanismRelated: Expansionist Pan-German currents helped normalize claims that national unity required more territory.

• Mein KampfBroader topic: The book argues that expansion eastward would secure land and resources for Germans.

• Blood and soilRelated: It extended the link between racial community and land from rural belonging to imperial conquest.

• Rudolf KjellénRelated: Organic accounts of state growth became associated with this expansionist political vocabulary.

• ExpansionismBroader topic: This doctrine fused expansion with racial ideology and conquest.