Hitler displayed ultranationalism when he put Social Darwinism into action, he was creating a master race. Hitler believed in survival of the fittest; he eliminated people who didn't meet the ethnic idea. Lebensraum and Social Darwinism were both indications of ultranationalism that Germany displayed, that ultimately lead to the cause of the second world war.
The Role of Race in the Holocaust B: Analytical body Through my research I tried to look for the role of race in the Nazi System, which probably caused the holocaust which is locked chambers that are spread with poisonous killing gas aimed for killing the Jews. Race is seen as the most illogical component of the Nazis system, which made it a dictatorial regime capable of committing acts of evil. Fundamental to all Hitler’s policies his absolute belief in the dominance of the Aryan Race and all need to prepare the German people for its role as master of Europe. According to Nazis race theorists, that the essential characteristics of the typical “Aryan” included a tall and slim build, a narrow face and nose, a famous well-known chin, afresh skin, and a gold or blond hair. Hitler aimed gradually to purify the German race, and this would be achieved by eliminating racial mixing, to create in von Shirach’s words “the perfect and complete human animal- the superman” the main obstacle to this as Hitler thought was the “eternal enemy”, the Jews.
In 1933, Hitler, leader of the Nazi party, was named Chancellor of Germany. After World War I the League of Nations had forced Germany to accept responsibility for the war. They lost land, were banned from building new submarines and aircraft, and had to pay for damages caused by the war. (Gordon, page 343) Hitler and the Nazi party wanted revenge on the winners of World War I and the Socialists, Communists, and Jews, who he blamed for Germany’s loss in World War I. (Ward and Burns, page 16) Hitler decided to take over other countries and to kill Jews.
The Nazis felt like this political group was trying to undermine their “people’s community”. Hitler made it very clear that he did not want the communists in his people community when he and the Nazi party realised their 25 point programme of 1920.However the Nazis also portrayed the socialist and any other party of which had taken part in coalition governments during the Weimar republic as they collaborated with communism and Jewish democracy. Hitler wanted to introduce the policy of volksgeminschaft in this case because if he could eliminate the communists and the other parties who were associated as collaborating with them, the Nazis could then get their votes as they had a high amount of supporters, which would mean them having the majority and coming into power. Anybody who the Nazis believed that represented a threat to the racial purity of which Hitler wanted would come under the socialism categories. This included, Jews, gypsies and those who were seen as mentally or physically unfit.
Hitler was very adamant about the youth of Germany because his dream of “A Thousand-Year Reich” can only be possible through its youth. This is precisely why the “The Hitler Youth” or “HJ” was created; to target the youth of Germany to assimilate them into their ideologies in attempt to control the minds and actions of the young. This is one of the methods of indoctrination and mass amounts of propaganda executed during Adolf Hitler’s regime to inherit their foundation of beliefs such as prominence or superiority of the German race and hate and annihilation of the Jewish population. “Swing Kids” followed the lives of coming of age teenagers who were faced with situations that questioned their integrity and beliefs. These particular boys Peter, Thomas, and Arvid were best friends and were determined to withstand their friendship through trying times in Nazi Germany.
The founder of this organization is Aaron Zelman. When asked what the purpose of this organization was he proclaims that their main goal is, “ the destruction of the idea that gun control is a socially useful public policy" (Verberg, 1995). This organization has written number books that have re-visited history to prove their point that gun control can lead a country to lose its right and eventually genocide. In “Lethal Laws: Gun Control is the Key to Genocide” Simkin,, Zelman, & Rice (1994) Zelman and his group bring to light the laws in Germany and how they paved the way for Hitler to use gun control for his advantage. Before his rule the previous administration, under Weimar, enacted a strict gun control law in 1928.
The British blockade kept all trades away from the Germans, including food (Ghost Liners 124).Yet, when the Germans retaliate, the Americans hate them for it. The Germans received blame for a crime that followed the rules of war blockades. America shames the Germans for killing civilians warned of the possible danger. Finally, the Lusitania allowed for the British to win in a win-win situation that their government
The first documentation about their intention to exterminate the Jews appears in the 1942 Wannsee conference, when Germany faced a difficult situation in the Soviet Union. This illustrates that the Nazis had decided on the complete eradication of the Jews as the war became increasingly difficult. The extreme anti-Semitism displayed by Hitler in his speeches and comments and Nazi propaganda has been used to support the belief that the Nazis had decided on extermination as soon as they gained power. However, Hitler was known to exaggerate in his speeches to the extremist audiences, with remarks such “As soon as I have power, I shall have gallows after gallows erected… Then the Jews will be hanged one after another, and they will stay hanging until they stink”. Clearly, the method mentioned is unfeasible and this had the role of causing a sensation.
Therefore abstaining Hitler from having a grand design to put into effect. They deem Hitler to be more of an opportunist than a mastermind and that the eradication of the Jews became a convenient division of Hitler’s charming of the Jewish population. Extreme structuralists tend to believe that that Holocaust was initiated by the German bureaucracy, with Hitler having no place in its inception. They believe he merely capitalized on what would became an opportune occurrence for his winning over of the population. While Structuralists with a more passive view would believe that although effort was made by the Nazis to eventually remove all Jews from Europe, mass genocide was merely a last resort.
The government believed in the genetic superiority of Nordic, Germanic, and Anglo-Saxon peoples, supporting strict immigration and anti-miscegenation laws. By the end of World War II, however, the practice of eugenics by forcing sterilization had been abandoned due to the association with Nazi Germany. There were also media politics, which involved several propaganda films being played during the eugenics era, such as “The Black Stork” by Harry J. Haiselden and “The Science of Life” by Herbert G. Wells, where eugenics linked fitness with beauty and labeled ugliness (including race) a disability and insisted that their diagnoses were based on objective science. Eugenicist tried to use mass culture to promote their aesthetic vision, but their efforts had unintended responses. While mass culture revealed wide support for the doctors to let the unfit die, it provoked even stronger opposition to talking about it in public.