How Did Hitler Use Nationalism

The essay will explore how hitler used the discourse of nationalism to create a distinction between ‘us and them’. The essay will talk about what Hitler Felt about his own arian race and the germans and how he used the nationalistic rhetoric and created the fear of the other (the jews). In consequence we will also look at the practices and ideas of the Nazi party led by Hitler to understand a little bit more on how the mind of Hitler worked. “In its intense nationalism, mass appeal, and dictatorial rule, Nazism shared many elements with Italian fasicm. However, Nazism was far more extreme both in its ideas and in its practice. In almost every respect it was an anti-intellectual and a theoretical movement, emphasizing the will of the charismatic dictator as the sole source of inspiration of a people and a nation, as well as a vision of annihilation of all enemies of the Aryan Volk as the one and only goal of Nazi policy.” The
Hitler tried to establish himself in Vienna as an artist between the years 1908 and 1913, but he remained unsuccessful. The climate was openly anti semitic in Vienna, even though it nearly had two million jew residents which comprised 9% of the population. There was no restriction on anti semitism in Vienna, the newspapers and magazines openly wrote against them and the mayor Karl lugger was openly anti jewish. Hitler must have been strongly influenced by this climate hence he developed a strong hatred for the jewish people, throughout Mein Kampf he refers to them as liars, sly, clever and even parasites etc.
Hitler was against marxism which he believed jews strongly favored, “I believed that I could finally convince them of the danger inherent in the Marxist follies. But I only achieved the contrary result. It seemed to me that immediately the disastrous effects of the Marxist Theory and its application in practice became evident, the stronger became their