Nazi Racial Policy
Assess the impact of Nazi Racial Policy on civilians during the European War.
Nazism can be regarded as the most destructive force of the 20th century in part due to the sinister implications of Nazi racial policy on civilians amidst the European war. Essentially, the impact of Nazi race ideology was most adversely felt by the Jewish people as generations of Jews in both Germany and Nazi occupied territories were subjected to denationalization and subsequently mass-exodus under the banner of aryanisation and the policy of Lebensraum. Moreover, this form of race policy inclusive of the Nazi belief in the establishment of Herrenvolk or a master race is what led to the Holocaust, claiming the lives of more than 6 million Jews. Yet, the impact of Nazi racial policy did not only extend towards extermination but also forced upon a state of …show more content…
Nonetheless, such policies had a parallel impact on ethnic German civilians or Aryans’ who discovered a sense of racial consciousness and cultural chauvinism along with the acceptance of an increasingly radical form of anti-Semitism. Other indirect impacts of Nazi racial policy included the reinstatement of German women into the traditional child bearing role in a bid to maintain the supremacy of the Aryan race through eugenics as well as the inauguration of a classless society which provided civilians with unprecedented social mobility. Eventually, years of Nazi racial policy characterised by spiteful depiction of so called inferior races in particular the Slavs would have the most detrimental impact on German civilians, prompting the mass suicides in 1945. Henceforth, the impacts of Nazi Racial policy can be understood as the
Nazism can be regarded as the most destructive force of the 20th century in part due to the sinister implications of Nazi racial policy on civilians amidst the European war. Essentially, the impact of Nazi race ideology was most adversely felt by the Jewish people as generations of Jews in both Germany and Nazi occupied territories were subjected to denationalization and subsequently mass-exodus under the banner of aryanisation and the policy of Lebensraum. Moreover, this form of race policy inclusive of the Nazi belief in the establishment of Herrenvolk or a master race is what led to the Holocaust, claiming the lives of more than 6 million Jews. Yet, the impact of Nazi racial policy did not only extend towards extermination but also forced upon a state of …show more content…
Nonetheless, such policies had a parallel impact on ethnic German civilians or Aryans’ who discovered a sense of racial consciousness and cultural chauvinism along with the acceptance of an increasingly radical form of anti-Semitism. Other indirect impacts of Nazi racial policy included the reinstatement of German women into the traditional child bearing role in a bid to maintain the supremacy of the Aryan race through eugenics as well as the inauguration of a classless society which provided civilians with unprecedented social mobility. Eventually, years of Nazi racial policy characterised by spiteful depiction of so called inferior races in particular the Slavs would have the most detrimental impact on German civilians, prompting the mass suicides in 1945. Henceforth, the impacts of Nazi Racial policy can be understood as the