A view of geopolitics developed in 1920s Germany. Individuals are subordinate to the state which must expand with population growth, claiming more territory—Lebensraum—to fulfil its destiny. Bassin (1987) Pol. Geog. Qly. 6 argues that the racial doctrines that defined so much of the Nazi variant of fascism were ultimately incompatible with the environmental determinism of geopolitik.