The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 15: Hitler's Land Equity Argument for Lebensraum

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🗓️ 22 May 2026

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 205 One of the things the Nazi Experiment series tries to do on the New Discourses Podcast is to bust popular myths about the Nazis that have popped up in recent years for new audiences. One of these myths is that the Nazis didn't start out with any designs to conquer Europe, which ultimately precipitated World War II. In fact, they did have these ambitions going back to the earliest eras of their movement. In this episode of the series, host James Lindsay revisits part of the fourth chapter of Hitler's infamous Mein Kampf to reveal his thoroughly laid out arguments for why Germany must conquer Europe, particularly going eastward toward Russia. These arguments were made in 1924, a full fifteen years before World War II began as Hitler put them into action after building up his military machine. Perhaps most interesting of all were his stated motivations: a Malthusian population disaster argument combined with a belief in land equity. Join us for another illuminating episode. Latest from New Discourses Press! The Queering of the American Child: https://queeringbook.com/ Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2026 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #Hitler

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0:00.0	Everybody, it's James Lindsay, and you are listening to the new Discourses podcast.
0:26.0	And we are doing another exciting episode today of our sprawling Nazi experiment series.
0:34.4	So, and of course it's got its side series now, which is the Myth of the Blood.
0:38.7	You should check that out too. It looks like, as I'm reading more through that book, which is
0:43.7	Alfred Rosenberg's Myth of the 20th century, that there's going to be a whole bunch of episodes
0:49.5	of that crazy stuff. So we're going to really understand the mentality of the Nazis. I feel like this
0:56.0	is a missing piece of our education. Of course, the Nazi Experiment podcast series is designed to do that
1:01.8	as well. And as I'm reading through Mankf, some further reading, I'm finding more and more
1:10.1	things. So I think this is going to continue to
1:12.5	sprawl. Not only that, but I don't think I've mentioned this yet here on the podcast, but just to
1:17.2	kind of tease you out a little bit. I came across, it turns out Hitler wrote another book. I didn't
1:22.3	actually know this until fairly recently. And he wrote another book in 1928, MindConf being published in
1:29.5	1995 and the first volume being written in 1924. So a few years later, he writes effectively
1:35.3	a third volume to MindConf. It's never published because MindConf was an abysmal failure
1:41.5	and the publisher wouldn't take it. It never got an official proper title.
1:47.0	There were two copies of this made.
1:49.0	Hitler kept them locked in bunkers and protected.
1:52.0	They were found by US servicemen in 1945 at the end of the war.
1:58.0	And they have been authenticated.
2:01.6	But anyway, Hitler referred to it as,
2:04.6	and this is pretty funny, my secret book.
2:07.6	And it's basically his take on foreign policy.
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