Hitler’s strategic program for Greater Germany was based on the belief in the power of Lebensraum, especially when pursued by a racially superior society.[9] People deemed to be part of non-Aryan races, within the territory of Lebensraum expansion, were subjected to expulsion or destruction.[9] The eugenics of Lebensraum assumed it to be the right of the German Aryan master race (Herrenvolk) to remove the indigenous people in the name of their own living space. They took inspiration for this concept from outside Germany.[9] Hitler and Nazi officials took a particular interest in manifest destiny, and attempted to replicate it in occupied Europe.[11] Nazi Germany also supported other Axis Powers’ expansionist ideologies such as Fascist Italy’s spazio vitale and Imperial Japan’s hakkō ichiu.[12]
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Lebensraum is just a German word for “habitat” or “environment”. That’s why this narrative will always raise a lot of German eyebrows.
Also, Germany had colonies in Africa, too. AFAIK they predate the nazis. Expansion and imperialism was a thing at the time.
They had a colonial genocide in Africa before the Nazis. The Herero and Nama genocide.
Whenever I can, I like to point to the Bellamy salute as being the inspiration for the Nazi salute.
Your link does not support your claim
Later, during the 1920s and 1930s, Italian fascists and Nazi Germans adopted a salute which was very similar, which originated with the so-called Roman salute, a gesture falsely attributed to ancient Rome.
Do you know of any other accounts that would support the Bellamy salute as being the inspiration for the Nazi salute, apart from looking similar?
Apologies, it was the last thing I posted before going to bed, I should’ve verified it instead of relying on memory. What they have in common is the same gesture, which wasn’t even a real roman salute.
“Unrelated”
