Nazi Ideology

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Nazi Ideology
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Third Reich

1. Nazi Party's regime from January 1933 to May
   1945.
2. Hitler's expansionist regime, which he predicted
   would last 1,000 years
3. First Reich Holy Roman Empire (800-1806)
4. Second Reich- German empire under the
   Hohenzollern dynasty (18711918)

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Nazi Racial Ideology

• History is a continual struggle between peoples
• A people is a distinct ethnic group
• Mixing with other ethnic groups brings decay and
  corruption

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Social Darwinism

• Conception of races through a cultural lens
• All cultures are either expanding or contracting
• Constant struggle of survival
• War is the natural state

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Eugenics

• Started in United States supported by
• Alexander Bell
• Rockefeller
• Carnegie
• Nazis perverted this philosophy with an
  eliminationist ideology
• First targeted disabled

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• A healthy people
• 1. Is racially pure
• 2. Expands its pure population
• 3. Expands its territory to increase living
  space for its pure population (Lebensraum)

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In this context, a responsible government

1. Promotes racial purity
2. Prepares to wage war for living space
3. Expands population base by invading other
   countries

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Nazi Conception of Jews

• The German race had been corrupted by inferior
  races and must be purified
• Jews are special enemies of the German people
• driven to dominate
• have no living space of their own
• Jews seek to dominate host peoples by
• diluting their race
• establishing control of the countrys finances

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Nazi Conception of Jews

• The German race had been corrupted by inferior
  races and must be purified
• Jews are special enemies of the German people
• driven to dominate
• have no living space of their own
• Jews seek to dominate host peoples by
• diluting their race
• establishing control of the countrys finances

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Judeo Bolshevism

• Conspiracy theory that Jews were responsible for
  Communism
• Jews as a weaker race was able to manipulate
  other weaker races through
• Communism
• Equality/civil rights