claim and reality in the "Lebensraum" concept

Submitted by myth (Germany), Feb 25, 2010 at 10:36

M. Tovey, because of your comment I read a bit in the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensraum to learn that the "Lebensraum im Osten"-concept in Nazi-Germany is older than Hitler's writings. The whole claim compared to reality looks different. Hitler's prime goal in the polish and russian campaign was clearly to kill all jews there. The majority of jews killed in the camps came from eastern countries. So reality looks more like territory to build concentration-camps on outside of germany. Would the arabs have such an interest in the Israeli terrority were there no Jews at all ? My feeling is the arabs all around blame their poor states on Israel's success, they are jealous. Stealing historical hebrew artifacts looks very helpless to me.

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