lebensraum

name

1. Territories considered appropriate for German habitation, regarded as vital for the natural flourishing of the German race:
2. (Nazism)Territories considered appropriate for German habitation, regarded as vital for the natural flourishing of the German race:

noun

1. Hitherto unoccupied “living space” claimed as one’s rightful domain.

   “Geographers accepted this enlarged meaning of the term and spoke readily of geographical Räume and Lebensräume of peoples, even in cases where no real three-dimensional distribution was implied.”

   “Even when there aren’t any explosions going on, when you’re scanning a distant compound with your sniper rifle, trying to decide which soldier would be the best one to kill first, before every enemy in a two-mile radius deduces your exact position like a vodka-drinking sextant, everything from a certain distance disappears into this weird glowing haze, like the Russians are occupying the surface of Mercury — which is beyond even the most liberal interpretation of lebensraum.”