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The ideologies found at the root of Hitler's implementation of Lebensraum modeled that of the British imperialism of the 1800s and early 1900s as well as America's Manifest Destiny. Hitler had great admiration for the United States' land empire and was fascinated by the ethnic cleansing of indigenous people that took place during the United States' expansion west and used this in part for justification of German expansion. He believed that in order to become a world superpower like the United States or Britain, Germany must expand their geopolitical presence and act only in the interest of the German people. Hitler also believed that Germany and European nations in general were too reliant on British trade policies and that German expansion would help level the industrial and economic playing field between the Germans and the British.

"There is only one task: Germanization through the introduction of Germans [to the area] and to treat the original inhabitants like Indians. … I intend to stay this course with ice-cold determination. I feel myself to be the executor of the will of History.  What people think of me at present is all of no consequence.  Never have I heard a German who has bread to eat express concern that the ground where the grain was grown had to be conquered by the sword.  We eat Canadian wheat and never think of the Indians."