02 Feb '13 21:10>1 edit
Originally posted by AThousandYoungWhat always surprised me about Hitler was
This isn't a primary source but its a start:
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Lebensraum
It was the stated policy of the Nazis to kill, deport, or enslave the Polish,Russian,and otherSlavic populations, whom they regarded as Untermenschen ("inferior peoples"😉, and to repopulate the land with reinrassig ("pure breed"😉 Germanic ...[text shortened]... ral surplus to feed Germany and allowing their replacement by a German upper class.
he did not look like the role model he was trying to create.
He was not six feet tall athletic blond and blue eyed.
He did not epitomize the aryan race that he said Germany should consist of
when he was getting rid of all these other people who did not fit the bill.
He wasn't even a German himself. He was Austrian.