After the downfall of the First World War, Germany was hit hard by the economic depression which caused millions of people to be out of work and lacked confidence because of this defeat. Due to these conditions, it allowed for Adolf Hitler to rise and make himself be heard as he was a powerful and spellbinding speaker who promised Germany a better life. Hitler was then appointed chancellor in 1933, guided by racist and authoritarian ideas he removed the basic rights for Germany and sought to create a ‘volk’ community. To establish this the Nazis began a policy forcing organizations, political parties and state governments into line with the Nazis goals and under their leadership. Further the culture, economy, education and law was placed under
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The Hitler youth and League of German Girls taught children to be faithful to the Nazi party, including the celebration of Hitler’s birthday and the anniversary of taking power. In 1933 German physicians were allowed to preform forced sterilizations on oppositions making it impossible for them to have children. The Nazis main targets were the Roma or Gypsies, the disabled, mentally ill and people born deaf and blind and the African-German children. Hitler viewed the Jews as a poisonous race that lives off other races and weakens them. In September 1939 Germany invaded Poland and the anti-Jewish policy escalated to the imprisonment and eventual murder of European Jewry. Hitler believed that a person’s characteristics, attitudes, abilities and behaviours were determined by their racial …show more content…
Hitler spread his beliefs regarding ‘racial purity’ and the superiority of the German race or the Aryan ‘master race’ which contained blue eyes, blonde hair and being tall. These beliefs became the government ideology and spread in public by posters, radios, movies, classrooms and in the newspaper, with the support of German scientists who believed that the human race could be improved by limiting the reproduction of those who are believed to be ‘inferior’. Nazi teachers began to implement the ‘principles’ of racial science where they measured the students skull size and nose length and also recorded the colour of students hair and eyes to determine whether students belonged to the ‘true Aryan race’ in this process Jewish and Romani students were humiliated. Driven by a racist ideology that regarded Jews as ‘parasitic vermin’ that were worthy of eradication the Nazis implemented genocide on an unprecedented scale. Hitler believed that the superior races had the right and obligation to subdue and even exterminate inferior ones. Hitler decided that in order to maintain the race purity the Nazis needed to sought out any intermarriages between Aryan Germans and members of inherently inferior races and if this wasn’t completed then this would cause the degeneration of the race
The Hitler youth and League of German Girls taught children to be faithful to the Nazi party, including the celebration of Hitler’s birthday and the anniversary of taking power. In 1933 German physicians were allowed to preform forced sterilizations on oppositions making it impossible for them to have children. The Nazis main targets were the Roma or Gypsies, the disabled, mentally ill and people born deaf and blind and the African-German children. Hitler viewed the Jews as a poisonous race that lives off other races and weakens them. In September 1939 Germany invaded Poland and the anti-Jewish policy escalated to the imprisonment and eventual murder of European Jewry. Hitler believed that a person’s characteristics, attitudes, abilities and behaviours were determined by their racial …show more content…
Hitler spread his beliefs regarding ‘racial purity’ and the superiority of the German race or the Aryan ‘master race’ which contained blue eyes, blonde hair and being tall. These beliefs became the government ideology and spread in public by posters, radios, movies, classrooms and in the newspaper, with the support of German scientists who believed that the human race could be improved by limiting the reproduction of those who are believed to be ‘inferior’. Nazi teachers began to implement the ‘principles’ of racial science where they measured the students skull size and nose length and also recorded the colour of students hair and eyes to determine whether students belonged to the ‘true Aryan race’ in this process Jewish and Romani students were humiliated. Driven by a racist ideology that regarded Jews as ‘parasitic vermin’ that were worthy of eradication the Nazis implemented genocide on an unprecedented scale. Hitler believed that the superior races had the right and obligation to subdue and even exterminate inferior ones. Hitler decided that in order to maintain the race purity the Nazis needed to sought out any intermarriages between Aryan Germans and members of inherently inferior races and if this wasn’t completed then this would cause the degeneration of the race