The concept of the Slavs in particular being Untermenschen served the Nazis' political goals; it was used to justify their expansionist policy and especially their aggression against Poland and the Soviet Union in order to achieve Lebensraum, particularly in Ukraine.
Begrebet de slaviske folk som "Untermensch" tjente navnlig nazisternes politiske mål, og blev brugt som legitimering af deres ekspansionistiske politik, især deres aggression mod Polen og Sovjetunionen for at skaffe Lebensraum, især i Ukraine.