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GRMN 2301: INSIDE NAZI GERMANY EXAM
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GRMN 2301: INSIDE NAZI GERMANY EXAM 1*What are the major tenets of Nazi thought? (also need to define them) - Answers -1.
Anti-Semitism
2. Lebensraum
3. Social Darwinism
4. Leadership Principle
5. Racial Hygiene
6. Individualism
Anti-Semitism - Answers -1. Religious/Old Christian Anti-Semitism: blamed Jews for the
death of Jesus so wanted to hate them but also wanted to keep them around in case a
Jesus situation happened again; based on FAITH (Jews were able to convert to
Christianity and then they were ok)
2. Modern Anti-Semitism: now based on race; it seemed as though Jews were gaining =
rights under the law, but it was actually a ploy to get them associated with the
Enlightenment: laws did not allow them in typical professions, they now had to work in
more modern professions, and this is part of what got them associated with modernism;
Jews started to get blamed for the struggles of modernity and rationalization
3. Redemptive Anti-Semitism: ...
Lebensruam - Answers -Germans thought they were justified in invading and colonizing
Eastern Europe because they were superior to Eastern Europeans (to them, this was a
scientific justification)
the belief that Germany and the Germans needed "living space" in Eastern Europe;
wanted to conquer Eastern Europe
Social Darwinism - Answers -the strongest and most ruthless survive; "kill or be killed"
mindset; life is the struggle for survival
Nazism - Answers -aimed for the creation of a new racial German community under the
leadership of one man
(must be pure; cleansed; racial hygiene)
Leadership Principle - Answers -under one man; believed that democracy was part of
the reason for all the problems and people wanted one single person to be making all
the decisions
, Racial Hygiene - Answers -allowing only the fittest and strongest to reproduce; killing
physically/mentally disabled/ill or leaving them untreated so only the fittest would
survive
essentially weeding out the weak to create the strongest race possible
Individualism - Answers -the best should rise above the rest through struggle and
should then use their geniusness to benefit the rest of society
*Explain the Rise of the Nazi Movement - Answers --Europe 1803: "Germany" was just
an idea; it did not exist until the late 19th century
-1871: forms Germany and Austria-Hungary Empires
Loss of WWI
-loss of territory (1919) due to Treaty of Versailles
-End of WWI: changed what people thought of war; what it meant to be human (End of
WWI led to: post war loss of German Territory, mechanized warfare, Nationalism,
Revolutionary moments in art and literature)
1917:
-Soviet Union rise to power (communist party taking over biggest country in the world)
-"if they could do this, we could do something similar in Germany"
1920s:
-Election Summaries: Nazi party never a majority party; had popular support but not
overwhelmingly so; formed alliances with more traditional conservative parties
*What is the importance of culture and art in Nazi thought? - Answers --Creativity was
important because it is what (along with Culture) distinguishes Germans from and
above other races
Mein Kampf - Answers -Adolf Hitler
MAIN IDEAS:
1. The Significance of the Spoken Word
-you can change what you're saying based on the reactions of the audience
-people are easier to control at night
-theatrical
2. Nation and Race
-Racial Typology: his theories/definitions of the different races (Culture
Creating/Founding, Bearing, Destroying)
-Discussions of relations/connections between race and culture
-Struggle is natural among races, maintenance of purity, avoidance of mingling, praise
of nature and struggle, the "Aryan"
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