EXPANSIONISM
This was the belief that Germany had the right to expand its rule to create living space, 'lebensraum', for the pure German race. Hitler planned to achieve this by conquering the surrounding lands, and eventually expanding his rule until it encompassed the entire world. In Germany, he made space for his perfect race by removing the possessions of all 'undesirable' races, and putting them in ghettos, labor camps or, eventually, death camps.
'It will be the duty of German foreign policy to get large spaces to feed and house the growing population of Germany'
-Adolf Hitler (Mein Kampf)
Expansionism not only refers to the acquiring of more land to house the pure German population, but also the growth of the population itself. Young girls were encouraged to have children young, and supply the nation with as many healthy, strong, pure babies as they could to support the next generation of German people. Every year on the 12th of August, Hitler would award a bronze medal to any woman who had given birth to five children, a silver medal to those with six children, and a gold medal to mothers with seven children.