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Main articles: Lebensraum, Generalplan Ost, Germanization, and Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933–1945, advocated for a Drang nach Osten to acquire territory for German colonists at the expense of central and eastern European nations ( Lebensraum ).
Drang nach Osten, (German: “Drive to the East”), German policy or disposition to colonize the Slavic lands east of Germany. The term originally referred to the eastward movement of German settlers in the 12th and 13th centuries but was resurrected by Adolf Hitler in the 20th century to describe his.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The plan, prepared in the years 1939–1942, was part of Adolf Hitler's and the Nazi movement's Lebensraum policy and a fulfilment of the Drang nach Osten (English: Drive towards the East) ideology of German expansion to the east, both of them part of the larger plan to establish the New Order.
According to the Nazi government, that principle was pursued by Germany to secure a fair rearrangement of territory for the common benefit of a new, economically integrated Europe, [9] which in Nazi terminology meant the continent of Europe with the exception of the "Asiatic" Soviet Union. [10]
May 4, 2012 · If Hitler's Drang nach Osten [thrust toward the east] shows increasing momentum, Turkey will surely be compelled to weigh the danger of being caught on the losing side.
- Brian Resnick
Their implications cause Czechs, Lithuanians, and Poles to take counter measures against the threat of the new Drang nach Osten which Adolf Hitler and his propaganda and military machines...
Drang nach Osten ist ein politisches Schlagwort aus der nationalistischen Diskussion des 19. Jahrhunderts. Seine genaue Herkunft ist unbekannt. Als erster schriftlicher Beleg wird häufig ein offener Brief des polnischen Publizisten Julian Klaczko an Georg Gervinus aus dem Jahre 1849 genannt; Klaczko benutzte jedoch nicht die Formulierung ...
