REL 2120 : REL2120 Lecture13
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In hitler"s view: all groups, races, or peoples carry within them traits that are immutably transmitted from one generation to the next. For better or for worse, no individual can overcome the innate qualities of race. : hitler believed that all members of a race or group shared a collective instinct for survival, not individual. Abhorrence of intermingling: anytime 2 races intermingle, the lower race will pollute the higher race, and in turn this process over time threatens to distinguish the entire human race. Lebensraum: living space they felt that if these people to the east were left unchecked, their growth would choke the growth of the superior germans. Friedrich ratzel gave this term to this process in 1901. 11 years later, friedrich von bernhardi published a book called germany and the next war. He explicitly identified eastern europe as the area into which german expansion could occur.