Why did the Nazis think that Germany needed more land?

It really was the economic model of its time and place just before modernity really got going.  It was also completely supported by historical precedent.

The LAND Meme has not completely evaporated even today.  Except it is now a slab of concrete way up in the air.  Our own agricultural lands have been hugely depopulated  into urban living.

My point though is that land hunger was the primary economic driver in 1900 and was known as such and accepted by everyone.  It most certainly was not a NAZI invention.

Again it is my contention that the earth can readily support 100,000,000,000 humans while sustainably working the land.  Several times as much is likely, but that is where we slow down to think about it all.

Why did the Nazis think that Germany needed more land?

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The first was the issue of resources.

To be fair, post-World War I Germany was really out of luck in terms of finances and materials.

Though understandable, the Treaty of Versailles did worsen their already bad situation.

The country needed to undergo heavy reparations, to lose so much territory, and its military forces were to be reduced.

Otherwise, imagine losing a game-where winners come for not only your console but even your favorite controller-and ultimately you are meant to pay them for the electricity used in beating you.

Of course, that is not the best feeling.

So, from the Nazi point of view, more land meant more stuff: more coal and iron for the factories, more farmland to feed a nation, more space to put a growing population.

That is, you needed a bigger apartment because you'd have too much stuff and too many roommates; instead of hunting for a new place, you decided to just… take over your neighbor's apartment.

Not the most diplomatic solution, really.

However, it involved much more than just the need for practicality.

There was also the highly faulty concept called "Lebensraum," meaning "living space."

Somewhat convoluted reasoning behind this was that because the German people viewed themselves as the superior race, they deserved more physical territory to expand into and to thrive in.

That's like saying, "We are the best; therefore, we deserve the lion's share of everything, even if that means taking it from them."

Also inherent in the ambition was the wording itself, "uniting the German people."

There were ethnic Germans living in parts of both Czechoslovakia and Poland, so the Nazis took those territories as an excuse to conquer that area.

Of course, all this was framed within a great amount of vitriolic rhetoric regarding racial purity and national destiny.