Adolf Hitler had a dismissive view of the Slavs, inherited in part from the late nineteenth-century German nationalist proponents of the Kulturkampf (culture struggle) and the Drang nach Osten (urge to the east). His ideas also derived from his personal experience with the Vienna of his youth; he recalled ‘the embodiment of racial defilement’ and the ‘race conglomerate’ with its ‘alien mix of nationalities’, that he felt destroyed the positive characteristics of Germandom. During and after World War One, his views conformed to the blended ideology of antisemitism, anti-Slavism and colonialism that characterised much of German right-wing thinking about the east.