Hitler was known for his totalitarian government, which referenced his act based on Darwism. Hitler’s theories on racism was to cleanse them of the lower class, to filter out the weak and to brutally punish those for the “good of humanity and the survival of the fittest” (see Darwin’s “Natural Selection,” (897). On the other hand, Soviet Union’s justification in its totalitarianism government derived from a scientific method by Karl Marx (see Marx’s “Communist Manifesto,” (453) in the power of classes. Soviet Union believed in two types of classes, progressive and non-progressive. In the form of totalitarianism governments Soviet Union was considered progressive and if you are not a communist you were considered a non-progressive class that would not amount to anything.
Why was Nazi Germany anti-Semitic and what was the government’s “final solution”? Anti-Semitism is prejudice against, or hostility towards Jews. Holocaust refers to the complete burning of a substance by flame and describes the final solution reaching in Germany in 1942 to exterminate the Jewish race. So far as many Germans were concerned, Hitler had revived the economy, restored national pride and improved their lives. They believed they belonged to a Volksgenmeinschaft that proved for their needs and to which they owed their obedience.
Hitler targeted 10-18 years as he saw these as the future of Germany, this importance of this system is shown with the quote “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future”. Hitler was clearly intent on ensuring the Nazi regime lasted and therefore targeted the young. The Hitler Youth focused on things such as Nazi heroes, the Jewish threat and the greatness of the Fuhrer. Despite the Hitler Youth aiming to restrict opposition, opposition grew with groups such as the swing movement who boycotted and later attacked the Hitler Youth. This showed that, the aims of the social policy, creation of the 1000 year Reich would prove more difficult than Hitler first thought.
They also changed their documented history in order to seem that the German Knights had wanted a Third Reich. Also the Nazis created propaganda that made other races look bad, and practically influenced thei people that others were inferior. All this can be compared to Orwell's
The central proposition here is that the relentless dynamism and the commitment to a politics of struggle that had carried the Nazi movement into power were dispersed into the political system as a whole after 1933, depriving it of any stability or predictability. As leaders improvised agencies and policies in the competition to define and enact the amorphous will of the regime and its leader, the result was pre-emptive, cumulative radicalization of the regime's political direction. The most radical policy of all, the extermination of the Jews, could also be understood not primarily as the step by step realization of Hitler's own ideological programme by responsive and obedient henchmen, but as the outcome of the perverse, proliferation
Liebenfels stressed the superiority of the Germans, the inevitability of racial conflict and the inferiority of the Jews. The master race, by its very nature, had to grow. Selective breeding and the systematic sterilization of inferior races was the answer. (Sherman, 718) When war broke out in 1914, Hitler believed he had found salvation. (Sherman, 719) The struggle and discipline of war gave meaning to Hitler's life.
The nature v. nuture debate was first started by Francis Galton who believed intelligence, morals, and strength was based on heredity. He used the theory of evolution to prove this thought by using natural selection which means the most adaptable trait is passed through generations (Nale, J., 2010). He used the term “eugenics” as a means to describe the breeding of certain genes or breeding out of bad traits to create a superior race. An extreme example of the progression of eugenics was the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jewish people. The Jews were seen as an inferior race that needed to be extinct in order to not minimize the corruption of the human genome by excluding inferior traits (Tudge, C., 1999).
What impact did Nazism have on the German population? After coming into power in 1933 it became their aim to create a totalitarian state headed by Hitler, under which they could control the everyday lives of the German people. They hoped to achieve this through organisation and to discourage any form of thinking that was not part of the state approved ideology. The Nazis impacted on the German people by controlling key institutions such as the army, the education system, the church and employment. There is strong debate as to whether the Nazis provoked a social revolution in Germany and if they had a lasting impact on the lives of the German people.
However, more specifically, they all take on a different form. This can be because of a more individual leader or a unique set of principles and attitudes that are in place e.g. racial hatred towards Jews in Hitler’s Germany. In this essay I am going to show that all regimes of fascism bear similarities especially after WW1 but considering that Japan is geographically outside Europe and Hitler’s incorporation of racial ideology, I will show that no one fascist regime is identical to the other. It is important to recognise what constitutes fascism especially when we consider the similarities and differences that belong to different fascist regimes in Italy, Japan and Germany and how they differ from authoritarian movements in Eastern Europe.
In these chaotic circumstances, Germans saw salvation with fascism. As a result of this Adolf Hitler and his unacceptable ideas became strong and captured power. So the German society was weak and defenseless. Therefore, the virus of fascism integrated society. Another example is emerging head skins in Europe.