Editing Mein Kampf (section)

===Anti-Slavism and {{lang|de|Lebensraum}} (''living space'')===
Hitler described that, when he was in [[Vienna]], it was repugnant for him to see the mixture of races "of Czechs, Poles, Hungarians, [[Ruthenians]], Serbs and Croats, and always that infection which dissolves human society, the Jew, were all here and there and everywhere."<ref>Joachim Fest, Hitler, p. 60</ref> He also wrote that he viewed the Japanese victory over the Russians in the [[Russo-Japanese War]] in 1904 as a "blow to [[Austrian Slavism]]".<ref>{{cite book|first=Francisco|last=Bethencourt|title=Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century|publisher=[[Princeton University Press]]|location=Princeton, New Jersey|date=2015|isbn=978-0691169750|page=325}}</ref>

In the chapter "Eastern Orientation or Eastern Policy", Hitler argued that the Germans needed {{lang|de|[[Lebensraum]]}} (living space) in the East, a "historic destiny" that would properly nurture the German people.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ww2history.com/experts/Sir_Ian_Kershaw/Hitler_s_expansionist_aims|title=Hitler's expansionist aims > Professor Sir Ian Kershaw > WW2History.com|website=ww2history.com|access-date=1 September 2010|archive-date=3 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203005619/http://ww2history.com/experts/Sir_Ian_Kershaw/Hitler_s_expansionist_aims|url-status=live}}</ref> Hitler believed that "the organization of a Russian state formation was not the result of the political abilities of the Slavs in Russia, but only a wonderful example of the state-forming efficacy of the German element in an inferior race."<ref>Adolf Hitler, ''Mein Kampf'', Eastern Orientation or Eastern policy</ref> In {{lang|de|Mein Kampf}}, Hitler openly described his proposed future German expansion in the East, foreshadowing [[Generalplan Ost]]:
{{blockquote|And so we [[Nazism|National Socialists]] consciously draw a line beneath the foreign policy tendency of our pre-[First World] War period. We take up where we broke off six hundred years ago. We stop the endless German movement to the south and west, and turn our gaze toward the land in the east. At long last we break off the colonial and commercial policy of the pre-War period and shift to the soil policy of the future.

If we speak of soil in Europe today, we can primarily have in mind only Russia and her vassal border states.<ref name="Fest2013">{{cite book|first=Joachim C.|last=Fest|title=Hitler|year=2013|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=978-0-544-19554-7|page=216}}</ref>}}

Hitler wrote that he was against any attempts to [[Germanization|Germanise]] Slavs, and criticised previous attempts at trying to Germanise the Austrian Slavs. He also criticised people in pan-German movements in Germany who thought that forcing ethnic Poles living in Germany to speak the German language would turn them into Germans; he believed that would have caused a "foreign race" by its own "inferiority" to damage the "dignity" and "nobility" of the German nation.<ref>Richard Weikart, Hitler's Ethnic, p. 73</ref>