KARL HOUSEHOFFER

Literally the word means “living room” but was an intellectual doctrine which essentially said that Germany, in order to survive as a major civilized society, was justified in conquering the lands of its neighbors—especially those areas which had traditionally ethnic German populations. This conquest would give the German “master race room to expand.

Literally the word means “living room” but was an intellectual doctrine which essentially said that Germany, in order to survive as a major civilized society, was justified in conquering the lands of its neighbors—especially those areas which had traditionally ethnic German populations. This conquest would give the German “master race room to expand.