Question

Nazi ideology was synonymous with Hitler’s worldview. According to this there was no

equality between people, but only a racial hierarchy. In this view blond, blue-eyed, Nordic

German Aryans were at the top, while Jews were located at the lowest rung. They came to

be regarded as an anti-race, the arch-enemies of the Aryans. All other coloured people were

placed in between depending upon their external features. Hitler’s racism borrowed from

thinkers like Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer. Darwin was a natural scientist who tried

to explain the creation of plants and animals through the concept of evolution and natural

selection. Herbert Spencer later added the idea of survival of the fittest. According to this

idea, only those species survived on earth that could adapt themselves to changing climatic

conditions. We should bear in mind that Darwin never advocated human intervention in

what he thought was a purely natural process of selection. However, his ideas were used by

racist thinkers and politicians to justify imperial rule over conquered peoples. The Nazi

argument was simple: the strongest race would survive and the weak ones would perish.

The Aryan race was the finest. It had to retain its purity, become stronger and dominate the

world.

a. Who were occupied the top and lowest positions in the racial hierarchy?

b. What were the concepts of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer?

c. What was the argument laid down by the Nazi’s?

d. What do you understand by the term ‘Racism’?​

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