Question

What was the peculiar feature of Nazi thinking

Answer 1

Answer:

i) According to Nazism there was no equality between people, but only a racial hierarchy  existed. 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.

ii) Hitler’s racism borrowed from thinkers like Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer.  According to this idea, only those species survived on the earth that could adapt  themselves to changing climatic conditions. However, his ideas were used by racist  thinkers and politicians to justify imperial rule over conquered people.

iii) 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.

iv) He believed that new territories had to be acquired for settlement and believed in  establishment of a racial state.

v) At 14, all boys had to join the Nazi youth organisation– Hitler Youth – where they  learnt to worship war, glorify aggression and violence, condemn democracy, and hate  Jews, communists, Gypsies and all those categorized as ‘undesirable’.

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