Word: lebensraum
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Germany not only depends upon her Balkan supplies for the war, but must increase them. The Soviet Union still looks upon Rumania's Bessarabia as a part of Russia, feels a kinship toward the Balkans' huge Slavic population. Italy regards the Balkans as her natural Lebensraum. The Allies would like nothing better than to get Germany or the U. S. S. R. involved in the Balkans so that they would have an open war front for their Armies in southeastern Europe...
...Herr Ribbentrop made it plain to M. Bonnet before signing the pact that Eastern Europe was henceforth to be regarded as German Lebensraum and that French alliances with Poland and Czecho-Slovakia were "atavisms." M. Bonnet did not contradict Herr Ribbentrop, signed...
...second-string oracle. When the Party wanted discipline, he ranted against nicotine, alcohol and debauchery (despite his own proclivity for liquor, generously indulged on "Strength Through Joy" outings). When Germany needed manpower, he lectured the Many Children League on that "natural, healthy" phenomenon, illegitimacy (see col. 2). When Lebensraum (living space) and the Communist menace were in the air, he proclaimed: "In Germany 147 men have to live on one square kilometre-in Russia only nine. This may be borne for a time by superhuman effort, but not forever." When vilification of Britain was in order, he was among...
...Czech opinion the same part as the assassination of Nurse Edith Cavell played in English public opinion during the World War." In Washington, the Czecho-Slovak Legation half-staffed its flag in mourning, and Minister Vladimir Hurban cried that what happened in Prague "is further proof . . . that living space [Lebensraum] for the Nazi Germans means space for death [Todesraum] for the rest of the world...
Improve his Lebensraum...