Question

Main features of nazism

Answer 1

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.   (iv) It was propagated that the Jews were responsible for the economic misery of the Germans.   (v) Nazis propagated war and glorified aggression.   (vi) Nazis believed in the idea of Lebensraum on living space, i.e., new areas should be acquired so that more space is available for the Germans to settle.     (vii) Nazis wanted to create a separate racial community of pure Germans by physically eliminating all those who were seen as undesirable by them.   (viii) The Nazis believed that Jews were inferior and the cause of German misery and therefore should be totally eliminated.   (ix) The Nazi argument was simple. The strongest race would survive and the weak ones would perish.