NAZISM AND THE RISE OF HITLER
TOPICS COVERED IN THIS PART :
3.0 THE NAZI WORLDVIEW
3.1 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE RACIAL STATE
3.2 THE RACIAL UTOPIA
*KEYWORDS AND THEIR MEANINGS
3.0 THE NAZI WORLDVIEW
Certainly! Here are the key points summarized from the provided paragraph:
1. Nazi crimes were rooted in a system of belief and practices.
2. Nazi ideology, synonymous with Hitler's worldview, emphasized a racial hierarchy.
3. Aryan Germans were considered superior, while Jews were seen as the lowest.
4. Other races were ranked based on their external features.
5. Hitler's racism drew inspiration from thinkers like Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer.
, 6. Darwin's ideas of evolution and natural selection were adapted to justify racial superiority.
7. The Nazis argued that the strongest race, the Aryans, would dominate.
8. Hitler's ideology also involved the concept of Lebensraum, or living space.
9. He believed in acquiring new territories for settlement to strengthen the German nation.
10. Poland was targeted as a place for this territorial expansion.
3.1 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE
RACIAL STATE
1. The Nazis aimed to create an exclusive racial community of pure Germans.
2. "Undesirable" individuals were physically eliminated from the extended
empire.
3. Only "pure and healthy Nordic Aryans" were considered desirable.
4. Even Germans seen as impure or abnormal were not allowed to exist.
5. The Euthanasia Programme led to the death of mentally or physically unfit
Germans.
6. Other groups, including Gypsies, blacks, Russians, and Poles, were considered
"undesirable."
7. These "undesirable" groups faced persecution and forced labor, resulting in
many deaths.
8. Jews were the primary target of Nazi hatred, rooted in traditional Christian
hostility and pseudoscientific racial theories.
9. The Nazis pursued a two-phase approach: terrorizing and pauperizing Jews
(1933-1938) and later concentrating and killing them in gas chambers in Poland
(1939-1945).
3.2 THE RACIAL UTOPIA
1. The Nazis, during wartime, pursued their murderous racial ideals.
2. Genocide and war were closely intertwined.
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