Correct option is D
D) More than one of the above (Territory and Race)
"Lebenstraum" in Nazism is associated with an ideological principal of Nazism and provided justifications for the German Territorial expansion. It is also related to German Social Society.
Information Booster :
Territory (A) is Correct:
The literal meaning of Lebensraum ("living space") refers to physical land for expansion
Nazi Germany sought territorial conquest in Eastern Europe (Generalplan Ost)
Race (C) is Also Correct:
The Nazi version was explicitly racial:
• Land was to be cleared of "inferior" Slavs/Jews
• Settled by "Aryan" Germans
• Part of racial hierarchy ideology
Hitler linked Lebensraum to racial struggle in Mein Kampf
Additional Information :
Lebensraum in Nazi Policy
Origins: Popularized by geographer Friedrich Ratzel, later adopted by Nazis.
Used to justify:
Annexation of Austria (Anschluss, 1938).
Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1939).
Invasion of Poland (1939) and USSR (1941).
Post-War Impact: Part of Nazi charges for aggressive warfare in the Nuremberg Trials.