Throughout Nazi Germany in the period 1928 through to 1941, racism was utilized by Hitler, and in turn his Nazi party, firstly to secure Hitler’s position as a dictator, and secondly to unite the German people against a common enemy, which would lead to a united powerful state, ready and able to exert its national will. Whether or not his aims were oppressive in nature is debatable but, his aims for racial purification and domination over Eastern Europe are made obvious before Hitler’s assumption of power, primarily in the racist crude writings of Mein Kampf, and even from Moellers Des drittes Reich from the 1920s. It can be said, therefore, though Hitler may not have been successful in achieving an oppressive state, he may certainly have desired it. Constantly, it is made obvious, through his use of racism in both Domestic and foreign policy that Hitler’s ultimate aim, was total power, both for himself and his master race - the Volksgeminschaft. Hitler 's use of racism is continually evident from the beginning of his comings to power, through till his attack on the Soviet Union in June of 1941. Racism, was initially used by Hitler to identify his sympathizers, and most predominant to unite the German people again public internal enemy number one - The Jews. Anti-semitism, anti-communism and attacks on several other minority groups ranging from slaves to democrats, provided Hitler with the Stab in the back theory post World War One, and provides and excuse for defeat with
Within Germany, a country torn between the rise of a totalitarian party that determined a superior race, Nazism, and the survival of the oppressed, young Germans face a test between a sense of self and society. Individuality would be suppressed within this new type of society, and being different would be the deadliest obstruction to life. The violations of the rights to life, religion, and speech are relived through the stories of the German youth that lived through this haunting time, whose name would be tarnished in their struggle to survive. In their fight, their morals would be challenged and influenced until the Nazi regime ended, and the violation of human dignity would leave them wondering if life was worth living after all. The Nazi Party grew under its leader, Adolf Hitler, which struggled not to use violence against those that disagreed with their views, starting with armed groups known as the Strum Abteilung, who pledged to be ready to sacrifice their life in the aims of the Nazi Party and absolute loyalty to their leader. Their cruel intolerance began by their strong nationalism and their hatred of democracy and communism, and they gained power through the economic depressions around the world, controlling the media by instilling fear and propaganda that influenced a strong belief in their leaders. This belief in the leaders would soon seem to override Church influence when the official body of the Church failed to do anything significant
The Nazis also adopted the social Darwinist take on Darwinian evolutionary theory regarding the “survival of the fittest.” For the Nazis, survival of a race depended upon its ability to reproduce and multiply, its accumulation of land to support and feed that expanding population, and its vigilance in maintaining the purity of its gene pool, thus preserving the unique “racial” characteristics with which “nature” had equipped it for success in the struggle to survive. Since each “race” sought to expand, and since the space on the earth was finite, the struggle for survival resulted “naturally” in violent conquest and military confrontation. Hence, war even constant war was a part of nature, a part of the human condition. Hitler and the Nazi party outlined their racial enemies in clear and unequivocal terms. For Hitler and the Nazis, the Jews represented a priority enemy both within and outside Germany. Their allegedly racial and inferior genetic makeup spawned the exploitative systems of capitalism and communism. In their drive to expand, the Jews promoted and used these systems of government and state organization, including constitutions, proclamations of equal rights, and international peace, to undermine the race-consciousness of superior races like the German race and to
But why racism? It is generally believed by sociologists that one cannot be a racist unless he is distinguishing between different biological traits between people, which somehow make one biological 'race' superior to another. And Hitler knew how bitter the Germans were about the loss of the First World War, so he needed a reason to give them as to why they lost. So he turned to racism and began distinguishing the Aryans from other races in Germany such as the Jews and homosexuals. By blaming the mixing of these inferior races into Aryan blood he gave the people a reason to believe they were better than someone else, and gave them a purpose, people to blame for Germanys devastated economy.
In the case of Germany its political State’s purpose was to “preserve and improve the race [for] progress in human civilization.”(Mein Kampf 1). This concept of race in which Hitler speaks appears to be influenced by the work of Arthur de Gobineau who in his book The Inequality of the Human Races(1853-1855) discussed the superiority of the white in the Aryan race, “negroid and yellow” races. He writes, “yellow races are thus clearly superior to the black”(205) because “he commits none of the strange excesses so common among the negroes” such as “kill[ing] for the sake of killing.(206) Although these definitions and interpretations of race and Germans as the race that “transformed western mind in the fifth century” as Aryan are not correct in our time, they had real life consequences when Hitler declared that the folk state “right and obligation are: that purity of the racial blood should be guarded, so that the best types of human beings maybe preserved…[for] a more noble development of humility itself”(Mein
Even though Germany was left in a period of struggle and economic weakness after WW1, Adolf Hitler would take a stand by creating a party that would help refine the structure of the economy. This party, when abbreviated, was called Nazi, would also create harsh laws and unrelentless punishment. Due to the Nazi party’s quick growth, there was an immediate impact on lifestyle and politics for the people of Germany. The long term impact brought forth by the consequences or legacy of the Nazi party included a population decrease and an increase in deaths. To make both of these impacts, Hitler had to overcome many hard challenges.
Upon the rise of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party (the Nazi Party) in Germany, homosexuals, were one of the various groups targeted by the Nazis and were ultimately among the Holocaust victims. Commencing in the early rule of Hitler, homosexual organizations were expelled, scholarly books about homosexuality, and sexuality in general, were destroyed, and homosexuals within the Nazi Party itself were detained or executed. The Gestapo assembled lists of homosexuals in Germany, who were obliged to sexually obey or conform to the "German norm or expectations." This is evident in direct reference to the memoirs of Pierre Seel and the atrocious suffering he endured due to his sexuality in Nazi Germany. “I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror” provides historians with an insight into the Nazi regime and the miseries endured by the minorities of that time. This response will consider the context, content and importance of these texts, as well as the difficulties that it poses as a primary source to historians.
World War 1 left Germany with a damaged economy, a leaderless country and people’s savings had dwindled. The central government was very weak and the people of Germany were desperate for some economic relief. The morale of Germany was low and the people needed something to be proud of. Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) seemed like an answer to their economic troubles and low morale. Hitler convinced the Germans that the jews had benefited from the war and were economically more successful than the starving Germans. He convinced them they were a master race and they had been betrayed by the Jews and the Communists. Hitler organized the military, he used propaganda, and he presented the Jews as the problem
After looking into two hate groups the American Nazi Party and United Klans of America, it was noticeable that the two groups racial hatred stemmed from the fear of the well-being of their own race. Both groups fear that United States is in jeopardy of becoming a racially mixed country rather than a white one. They view many minorities coming into the country and they fear that these people will replace them. This is the reason they have distress over white people losing their jobs to minorities and the government having policies that favor minorities. It is interesting, both groups claim to not be racist, but they voice opinions stating that each race should have their own separate country. Compared to the United Klans of America, the American Nazi Party does not advocate for violence and looks to use more political tools to get their point across. On the other hand, the United Klans of America claims they will not hesitate to use violence. After researching these two groups, there is no doubt that both groups possess strong racial hatred to a wide variety of minorities groups that include Jews, blacks, Muslims, Hispanics, and homosexuals.
Did you know that an estimated 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust? Not to mention, six million of those were Jews. The Nazi Party was a group that targeted Jews, Gypsies, Poles and other Slavs, and people with physical or mental disabilities. The Nazis were controlled by their leader, Adolf Hitler, which tried to kill all the Jews in Europe. They saw the Jews as a problem in Germany. They had even made death camps to try to get rid of them. The Nazi Party was an association controlled by their leader, Adolf Hitler, that was trying to complete a certain goal.
The Holocaust was the planned murder of the Jews and other groups who were believed to be ‘inferior’ to the ‘Aryan’ race. The Holocaust took place from 1933 to just past the end of the war in 1945. Its aim was the complete extermination or genocide of the Jewish people in Europe. The Holocaust happened under the command of Adolf Hitler, NAZI party leader, Chancellor of Germany 1933 – 1945 and Fuhrer of Germany 1934 – 1945.
The empire of the Third Reich and the notorious Nazi Party will forever go down in history as one of the most brutal and evil government organizations of the 20th century. Inspired by the ideologies of ethnic cleansing and how Germans should be the purest of all races, these ideas became rampant all across the country, and many citizens believed that this horrible wrongness could be justified, it would be for the greater good of the true Aryan people. The Nazis sent millions of innocent minorities to their deaths because they were seen as unequal and “life unworthy of life” However, history likes to forget the hundreds of thousands that didn’t die in camps, but died in hospitals at the hands of trusted physicians. Inspired by famous
On May 26, 1940, the largest and most horrifying concentration camp was established. Estimated around three million Jewish people died in the concentration camp, all thanks to Adolf Auschwitz-Birkenau. Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp out of the 20,000 created. Hitler. In this research paper, I will inform you on the horrific and inhumane terrors in Auschwitz, there psychotic leader Adolf Hitler, and the events that occur inside the camp.
During World War 2, the Nazi’s under Hitlers rule had made a decision which was to eliminate all of the Jews that were in Germany, and in German occupied territories. This was because they believed Jews to be contamination the pure, aryan-Germans. Nazi’s started sending the Jews to Concentration camps in 1938. Going to a concentration camp meant death, therefore Jews started trying to hide from Nazi officials or escape the camps. This was a dangerous task, and not everyone who did it survived.
Nationalism is a far right party. In today’s world we would be considered the “Nazi Party”. Meaning we have a very strong sense of an individual loyalty to our nation that exceeds any other interests from outsiders. Due to this party we hold very strong ideologies. The three main topics we researched were immigration, relations with the United States, and a 35-hour workweek configuration. Then we determined which position our party would most closely stand with.
Carl Schmitt argues that the role of myth plays an essential role in politics and that nationalism, in any confrontation, will win over socialism. Schmitt’s argument can be used to justify the events that occurred in Germany during the late 20s and early 30s. However, even though nationalism did play a key role in post-hyperinflation Germany, it is far too simplistic to say that the only motive of such events was nationalism. Events like the Beer hall putsch or the growth and success of the Nazi party were not solely because of nationalism. There were other factors that contributed to these events such as the fact that Germany was in a terrible situation to begin with. Germany was in chaos after WW1, and when the Great Depression followed, unemployment, inflation and food shortage increased even more. Such events led to the growth of the Nazi party as Germans felt like Hitler represented what many of them felt-- hatred of the republic. The Nazi party rose significatively because of their usage of propaganda, their anti-Semitism, their violence, their hatred of the Weimar republic and also because of opportunism.