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The German Nazis felt comfortable taking over Austria (which welcomed them for the most part) as well as Czechoslovakia and Poland. They practically walked right into the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and they met a little resistance in France, but not much. To the Nazi-Germans, Lebensraum meant "Let's take over every country that has German-speaking people, because it might as well be ours anyway."
It's also the reason why they felt comfortable with Italy as their ally, since most of northern Italy was also German-speaking at that time.
Needless to say, that's not how they think now, but it was true in the 1930's and 40's. It's probably very close to Putin's thinking nowadays.
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