What is
Nazism?
Nazism was the
ideology and practice of the German Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany.
The term "National Socialism" arose out of attempts to
create a nationalist redefinition of "socialism". The Nazis sought to
achieve this by with the aim of uniting all Germans as national comrades.
The Nazi Party was founded as the ‘German’s Workers Party’ on 5 January 1919. By the early
1920s, Hitler took control of the organisation and renamed it to the ‘National
Socialist German Workers' Party’. In 1933, with the support of more conservative elites, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany and the Nazis gradually established a
one-party-state.
- Building on a charismatic leader figure (Adolf Hitler) and on the support of the
military,
- Inventing
common enemies (Jews, communists, homosexuals, etc.),
- Making the working class to focus more on the higher-class work
Nazi
Ideology
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Germans were
depicted as the purest of the Aryan
race.
Nazism
held racial theories based upon the belief of the existence of an Aryan master
race that was believed to be superior to all other races. The Nazis
emphasised the existence of racial conflict between the Aryan race and others,
particularly Jews, whom the Nazis
viewed as a mixed race that is responsible for exploitation and repression of
the Aryan race
Social Class
The Nazi Party had many working-class supporters and members,
and a strong appeal to the middle
class. The financial collapse of the white collar middle-class of the 1920s figures
much in their strong support of Nazism. In
the poor country that was the Weimar
Republic of the early 1930s, the
Nazi Party realised their socialist policies with food and shelter for the
unemployed and the homeless.
Expansionism
A major policy of the German Nazi Party was living space for the Germans as Germany suffers from a shortage of land and was facing an overpopulation crisis after World War I and that action has to take place to end the country's overpopulation and provide resources necessary to its people's well-being. Since the 1920s, the Nazi Party promoted the expansion of Germany into territories held by the Soviet Union.
Sex
and Gender
Nazi ideology advocated women from
political involvement. Many women enthusiastically supported the regime but
formed their own internal hierarchies. The National Socialist goal was that
they wished for them to
produce a child. Hitler
said,
"With
every child that she brings into the world, she fights her battle for the
nation. The man stands up for the Volk,
exactly as the woman stands up for the family."
Nazi Germany offered favourable loans and grants to encourage
newlyweds with additional incentives for the birth of offspring.
Pamphlets were issued to German women
to avoid sexual relations
with foreign workers brought to Germany during WWII and to view them as
a danger to their blood. One of
the regulations stated "who has sexual relations with a German man or
woman, or approaches them in any other improper manner, will be punished by death."
Opposition to
homosexuality
"We must exterminate these people
root and branch ... the
homosexual must be eliminated."
The Nazis believed that male homosexuals were weak,
effeminate men who could not fight for the German nation. They saw homosexuals as unlikely to
produce children and increase the German birth-rate. The Nazi incarcerated 100,000 homosexuals during the 1930s.
As concentration camp
prisoners, homosexual men were forced to wear pink
triangle badges. Nazi
ideology still viewed German gay men as part of the Aryan master race. Gay men who would
not change in their sexual orientation were sent to concentration camps under the
"Extermination Through Work" campaign. The Nazis interested in finding a "cure" for
homosexuality expanded this program to include medical experimentation on
homosexual inmates of concentration camps. These experiments caused illness, mutilation,
and even death.
What can I infer from this source???
~ (P) I can infer from the source that Hitler is a very headstrong ruler. (Evi) Evidence from the source, he took back the lands that the Soviet Union gain possession for example Alsace Lorraine, and there were a large army placed in Rhineland which was actually ordered to be demilitarised due to the Treaty of Versailles.(Exp) This meant that he was determined to get back what was rightfully Germany's no matter what happens and he eventually succeed in carrying out his plans.(Link) Thus, this shows that Hitler is a very headstrong and determined ruler who wants the best for him and Germany.
~ (P) I can infer from the source that Hitler is a very headstrong ruler. (Evi) Evidence from the source, he took back the lands that the Soviet Union gain possession for example Alsace Lorraine, and there were a large army placed in Rhineland which was actually ordered to be demilitarised due to the Treaty of Versailles.(Exp) This meant that he was determined to get back what was rightfully Germany's no matter what happens and he eventually succeed in carrying out his plans.(Link) Thus, this shows that Hitler is a very headstrong and determined ruler who wants the best for him and Germany.
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