Adolf Hitler justified his hatred against the Jews in his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle) particularly in a chapter named “Nation and Race”. He was responsible for the massacre of millions of Jews. He swore to rid the world from Jews as he became the dictator of Germany. Thus, he ended up killing millions of Jews in his concentration camps which were spread across Europe. Furthermore he talks about the superiority of the Aryan race.
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In Nation and Race Hitler refers to Aryans as ‘pure blooded’. Furthermore, he categorises human race in three categories; as founders, maintainers and destroyers of culture. Among these three categories he refers the Aryans pertaining to the first category i.e. the founders of …show more content…
But prior to the ideology of Nazism one must understand the ideology of Fascism because the ideology of Nazism forms from the ideology of Fascism.
How Nazism differentiates itself from Fascism?
Fascism refers to “a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism” . This sort of ideology arose in Italy. It arose in the 1920s and the founder of this ideology was Benito Mussolini. This ideology was neither of ‘racist’ kind nor of ‘anti-Semitic (one who indulges in discrimination)’ kind. As per this ideology a Nation should have more of a communal spirit, Nation matters most as community, there’s also a strong emphasis on having a powerful military, existence of one political part was emphasised as it would be easy to establish a totalitarian regime and the most integral part of this ideology is the use or threat of violence on the people in order to rule upon …show more content…
Nazism refers to, “the body of political and economic doctrines held and put into effect by the Nazis in Germany from 1933 to 1945 including the totalitarian principle of government, predominance of especially Germanic groups assumed to be racially superior, and supremacy of the führer” . Here, führer refers to Hitler as he was the then dictator of Germany. This ideology is another variety of the ideology fascism. This ideology is of a ‘racist’ kind also it is ‘anti-Semitic’, these two factors differentiates Fascism from Nazism. In terms of racism, Nazism talks about Aryan race, furthermore the differentiation takes place in terms of purity of the blood. This ideology considers Aryans pure blooded and also superior than the other races. Also, when it comes to being anti-Semitic the Nazism ideology discriminates the Jews. The reason why these two things are prominent in this ideology is because Hitler emphasises on it. Moreover, these two terms can be linked to his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle) which he wrote in