Adolf Hitler encouraged settler colonialism.
Adolf Hitler . Hitler sought Lebensraum ( `` living space '' ) for the German people in Eastern Europe . Exploitation colonialism . A colonialist power pursues settler colonialism to relieve the pressures of over-population upon the economy and the national territory of the motherland , and to extend its territory and culture by reproducing its society in other parts of the world . The German concept of Lebensraum ( [ ˈleːbənsˌʁaʊm ] , `` living space '' ) refers to policies and practices of settler colonialism which proliferated in Germany from the 1890s to the 1940s .