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If you think the 'Great Replacement' BS that the Far Right go on about is new, well, no...
Funnily enough, the Nazis first tried that. Then, it was supposedly Jews threatening to overwhelm a declining population.
Frederick Burgdorfer's 'Folk without Youth' was the go-to text.
Funnily enough, the Nazis first tried that. Then, it was supposedly Jews threatening to overwhelm a declining population.
Frederick Burgdorfer's 'Folk without Youth' was the go-to text.
At the same time, the Nazis also promoted the ideas put forth by Hans Grimm, in his 'Volk Ohne Raum' - 'People Without Space'.
Gotta hand it to the Nazis propaganda machine - convincing Germans that they were simultaneously dying out, but also needing much more room.
Gotta hand it to the Nazis propaganda machine - convincing Germans that they were simultaneously dying out, but also needing much more room.
(Note: Grimm's work was a novel - it framed congested, dirty Germany against the German colonies in Africa. Not a demographical work.
Still, Nazis loved that emotive stuff.)
Still, Nazis loved that emotive stuff.)
