Word: lebensraum
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...search of Lebensraum with a view, affluent West Germans in the past few years have swarmed across Europe on the biggest Iand-buying spree in their history. Germans have become Europe's heaviest buyers of vacation homes in virtually every bracket, ranging from a department store tycoon's $1,000,000 pleasure dome on Cap d'Antibes to $1,500 cottages on the Mediterranean that are advertised as "your own castle in Spain." Though the stock market and their economy have leveled off, West German entrepreneurs are going ahead with plans to build new homes and hotels...
...Lebensraum with a View. Haunting Hess's mind was a compulsive fear and hatred of Communist Russia. For years Hess was under the spell of Professor Karl Haushofer, the geopolitical genius of Naziism who provided Hitler with his slogan of Lebensraum as a pretext for aggression. Hitler was parroting Haushofer when, in Mein Kampf, he wrote of the absolute need to avoid war on two fronts. But the success of the German armies intoxicated him, and he became more and more intent on attacking Russia. In the months before the flight, Haushofer kept telling the impressionable Hess that...
...study, Hitler's successes were the result of the Western Powers' failure to deal with German grievances realistically and consistently, rather than the consequence of an aggressive and war-bent policy of Hitler's. Hitler took advantage of the West's vacillation and indecision; he did not seek limitless Lebensraum or resolve upon a war for war's sake. "The war of 1939," says Taylor, "far from being premeditated, was a mistake, the result on both sides of diplomatic blunders...
...West Germany was largely content to let the U.S. and other NATO allies call the tune on East-West policy. Of late a militant, assertive new spirit has risen east of the Rhine. It is, in a sense, a new nationalism- not the unsavory kind associated with jackboots and lebensraum but a more civilized version reflecting the muscle and emotion of a strong, reborn nation...
...houses the Madame Club, where the new industrial upper crust can taste the delights of Lebensraum at the top. From its front courtyard, part of a neo-Renaissance palace built by the old nobility, to the comely blondes from Berlin who tend bar, the club exudes an easy opulence that suggests a Bavarian version of Rome and la dolce vita...