Hitler's death in World War II marked the end of a period of death, destruction, and genocide that included the deaths of an estimated six million Jews and millions of others considered inferior, racially or politically, by the Nazi regime.
"So far as I am concerned the Jews will be held responsible for all misfortune that befalls us in the future as well."
Adolph Hitler, 1922
Lebensraum is a German word that literally translates to “living space”. It describes the Nazi expansionist policy, first advanced by Adolf Hitler as the racial and geographic objective of Germany’s foreign policy. It proposed colonization of territories in order to gain more access to resources, living space and slaves for German people. The ideology of Lebensraum included a call to Germanize or eliminate non-Germans who lived in the conquered territories.
The Nazi plan was to expand Germany's influence and power to the east by annexing and controlling more land and resources. This included invading and occupying Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and other neighboring countries. Adolf Hitler also planned to drive out and/or exterminate the Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe in order to replace them with German colonists.