New Order (Nazism)

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The term New Order (German: Neuordnung) refers to the political and social concepts Nazi Germany sought to impose on German-occupied Europe and beyond. Planning for the Neuordnung began before World War II, but Adolf Hitler first proclaimed a "European New Order" in a speech on 30 January 1941. The New Order embodied the Nazi vision of a pan-German racial state structured to benefit an alleged Aryan-Nordic master race. It outlined the German colonization of Central and Eastern Europe, alongside the Holocaust against Jews and wider destruction of Romani people and others deemed "unworthy of life". The plan also entailed the extermination, expulsion, or enslavement of most Slavic peoples and others classified as Untermenschen (subhumans). Nazi Germany's aggressive pursuit of this territorial expansion (Lebensraum) was a primary cause of World War II. Historians debate the ultimate scope of the New Order: whether it was exclusively a continental project limited to Europe, or a roadmap for...

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