Lebensraum: The Nazi Geopolitical strategy
Hitler developed a belief that Germany required Lebensraum (“living space”) in order to survive and thrive. The invasion of Poland in 1939 was the lynch pin of the strategy. Below is a Nazi propaganda poster and map to advertise Lebensraum and encourage Germans to settle in the new territory.
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The Holocaust in Maps (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Geographies of the Holocaust Initiative: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.
Interactive maps from PBS’ Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (Adobe flash required)
Click here for a 1944 map of Auschwitz
Stanford University Holocaust Geographies Collaborative
Jewish Virtual Library Holocaust & WWII Maps
The Holocaust in Contemporary Maps
Topography of Terror: Maps of the Warsaw Ghetto
Transports to Extinction: Holocaust (Shoah) Deportation Database: Yad Vashem
The Map of Holocaust By Bullets: Yahad – In Unum