Alternate Lebensraums

[walmart]

Following Adolf Hitler's rise to power, Lebensraum became an ideological principle of Nazism and provided justification for the German territorial expansion into Central and Eastern Europe.[5] The Nazi policy Generalplan Ost (lit. 'Master Plan for the East') was based on its tenets. It stipulated that Germany required a Lebensraum necessary for its survival and that most of the populations of Central and Eastern Europe would have to be removed permanently (either through mass deportation to Siberia, extermination, or enslavement), including Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Czech, and other Slavic nations considered non-Aryan. The Nazi government aimed at repopulating these lands with Germanic colonists in the name of Lebensraum during and following World War II.

What are some ideologies that could develop something similar to Nazi Lebensraum and Generalplan Ost or even attempt it ? Two candidates, I could see would be Greater Israel or a Hindu Nationalist Akhand Bharat. Given the artificial nature of the majority of Sub-Saharan Africa, I can't see many possible candidates there. Maybe a more extreme Megali Idea attempted to remove the Slavs and Turks from Byzantium's 1066 borders ?

Lebensraum - Wikipedia

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[1962strat]

The Elephant in the room is the one that actually worked, and actually inspired the concept of Lebensraum, Manifest Destiny. Canada, Australia and Argentina have also carried out some form or another of ethnic cleansing and genocide to expand into native lands.

Serbia attempted their own form of genocidal expansionism less than 40 years, with less success than the ones above.

 

[Monk78]

South Africa Rhodesia

Culturally the whole “ Arab “ world was basically ethnically largely non-Arab.

 

[raharris1973]

Any "pan" national movement - Pan-Slavic, Pan-Arab, Pan-Germanic, Pan-Turkic or Pan-Turanian, Pan-Iranian, Pan-Bantu, Pan-Malay, with an anti-minoritarian or pro-"purification" streak seeking to root out and exclude ethnonational groups not fitting properly under whatever "pan-[blank]" identity rubric is chosen. Indigenous people and nonwhites in Manifest Destiny America or Canada, Aboriginals and Asians in Australia, Indigenous, Uralic, Turkic, Iranic peoples in a Pan-Slavic Russia, Basques in France or Spain, whites or Khoisans in Bantu majority southern and central Africa, Jews, Kurds, Turks, and Berbers and Armenians in a contiguous empire comprising Arab League nations under a "Pan-Arab" ideology.

 

[EasternRomanEmpire]

Any "pan" national movement - Pan-Slavic, Pan-Arab, Pan-Germanic, Pan-Turkic or Pan-Turanian, Pan-Iranian, Pan-Bantu, Pan-Malay, with an anti-minoritarian or pro-"purification" streak seeking to root out and exclude ethnonational groups not fitting properly under whatever "pan-[blank]" identity rubric is chosen.

It's not exactly the same thing as Lebensraum, Lebensraum wanted to eliminate all persons living in the East and replace them with Germans; the Pan-[ethnic group] considers that all these people are very similar and that they should live in one nation, not that they should be replaced. Those who are not enough assimilated into that ethnic group won't necessarily face genocide and be replaced.

 

[raharris1973]

It's not exactly the same thing as Lebensraum, Lebensraum wanted to eliminate all persons living in the East and replace them with Germans; the Pan-[ethnic group] considers that all these people are very similar and that they should live in one nation, not that they should be replaced. Those who are not enough assimilated into that ethnic group won't necessarily face genocide and be replaced.

No it’s not as ambitious but it could make for a motive to blot out and “erase” and “cleanse” “mistakes of history” and make “raum” for those who “should” be there. It would have been more achievable than Germans trying to fill up so much space of nearly equally densely populated Slavdom.

 

[RonaldReagram]

A postwar Kingdom of Yugoslavia, or any Yugoslav state captured by a "not fascist enough to cause a fuss" WAllied or neutral regime like Spain and Portugal, could have stopped treating its land as a Greater Serbia and gotten away with Yugoslavizing much of its territory, ex: assimilating/displacing Magyars and Germans in Vojvodina, erasing the memory of Trst and Istria having every been anything but Slovene/Croat, forcing Kosovars to either move to Bosnia and pretend to be Slavic Muslims or lose their homes and freedoms.