Editing Lebensraum (section)

=== Foreign-policy prime directive ===
[[Image:Nuremberg laws.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.3|The [[Nuremberg Laws]] (1935) of Nazi Germany employed [[scientific racism]] to exclude Jews from mainstream society. People with four German grandparents (white circles) were classified as of "German blood," those with one or two Jewish grandparents (black circles) were considered to be {{lang|de|Mischling}}, of "Mixed blood", while those with three or more Jewish grandparents were deemed to be Jews.]]The conquest of living space for Germany was the foremost foreign-policy goal of the Nazis towards establishing the [[Greater Germanic Reich]] that was to last a thousand years.<ref>[[Manfred Messerschmidt|Messerschmidt, Manfred]] "Foreign Policy and Preparation for War" from ''[[Germany and the Second World War]]'', Vol. I, Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1990 pp. 551–554.</ref> On 3 February 1933, at his initial meeting with the generals and admirals of [[Nazi Germany]], Adolf Hitler said that the conquest of {{lang|de|Lebensraum}} in Eastern Europe and its "ruthless [[Germanisation]]" were the ultimate geopolitical objectives of Reich foreign policy.<ref>Weinberg, Gerhard ''The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany Diplomatic Revolution in Europe'', Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970 pp. 26–27.</ref><ref>Hitler-quotation recorded by Curt Liebmann on February 3, 1933: "How shall political power be used once it has been won. Cannot be decided now. Maybe fighting for new export opportunities, maybe—and probably better—conquering new Lebensraum in the East and its ruthless Germanisation." Source: Wolfgang Michalka: Deutsche Geschichte 1933–1945. Dokumente zur Innen- und Außenpolitik. Frankfurt am Main 1999, {{ISBN|3-596-50234-9}}, pp. 17f. Vgl. Thilo Vogelsang: Neue Dokumente zur Geschichte der Reichswehr 1930–1933. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 2, 1954, Volume 4, pp. 397–436, esp. p. 435. Original quotation in German: „Wie soll pol. Macht, wenn sie gewonnen ist, gebraucht werden? Jetzt noch nicht zu sagen. Vielleicht Erkämpfung neuer Export-Mögl., vielleicht—und wohl besser—Eroberung neuen Lebensraumes im Osten u. dessen rücksichtslose Germanisierung."</ref> The USSR was the country to provide sufficient {{lang|de|Lebensraum}} for the Germans, because it possessed much agricultural land, and was inhabited by Slavic {{lang|de|[[Untermensch]]en}} ruled by [[Jewish Bolshevism]].<ref>Weinberg, Gerhard ''The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany Diplomatic Revolution in Europe'', Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970 pp. 12–13.</ref> The racism of Hitler's {{lang|de|Lebensraum}} philosophy allowed only the Germanisation of the soil and the land, but not of the native peoples, who were to be destroyed, by slave labour and starvation.<ref>[[Richard Bessel]], ''Nazism and War'', p. 36 {{ISBN|0-679-64094-0}}</ref>