What was the ideology of the Nazis regarding the Jews ?
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Answer- The above question is from the chapter 'Nazism and the Rise of Hitler'.
Given question: What was the ideology of the Nazis regarding the Jews?
Answer: Ideology of Nazis regarding the Jews-
1) There was a racial hierarchy built on the fact that the blond, blue-eyed, Nordic German Aryans were at the top most place while the Jews at the lowest place. They were regarded as the enemies of Aryans and anti-race.
2) This kind of racism was borrowed by Hitler from scientists like: Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin who gave the theory and ideas of survival of the fittest and concept of evolution, natural selection, etc. respectively. According to Hitler's Nazi ideology, the weakest (i.e. the Jews) would die while the strongest (i.e. the Nazis) would survive. He considered the Aryan race the finest and purest.
3) There was another aspect of Hitler's ideology i.e. Lebensraum or living space. According to this, new territories had to be conquered so that area of their mother country Germany could get increased, pure Aryans could settle and there could be in increase in the resources of Germany.
Explanation:
The Holocaust was an inconceivable historical event, which forever robbed Western culture of its innocence. As civilized human beings, we fail to understand how events of such horror could have taken place, and how an idea so inhumanly warped