Explain
any
five
salient
features
of
Nazism?
Answers
Explanation:
The peculiar features of Nazism were (i) Nazis believed in the idea of one people, one empire and one leader. (ii) It did not tolerate other parties and tried to crush all other organizations and parties and wanted to remove socialism, communism and democracy from Germany. (iii) According to Nazism there was no equality between people. In this view, the blue eyed Nordic German Aryans were at the top while the Jews were located at the lowest rung
Following were the main features of Nazism:
(1) According to Nazism, the private individual was subservient to the political state and the state was answerable to the supreme leader of the people.
(2) The concept of 'lebensraum', wherein the German nation had to acquire newer and newer territories in order to exapnd the German empire. The achievement of the dream of a vast German empire and supremacy of the German nation was a top priority.
(3) Intermingling of races was looked upon as undesirable. For this, references of the works of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer were given. Nordic Germans were considered 'pure', whereas the Jews were seen as 'impure'.
(4) Democracy and communism in all its forms was to be abjured.
(5) A fundamental beleif in the superiority of the Aryan race.