Chapter 3

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Class 9
History
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3. What are the peculiar features of Nazi thinking?
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Question:

What are the peculiar features of Nazi thinking?

Answer:

Some of the peculiar features of Nazi thinking are:

  • According to this Nazi ideology, there was no equality but only a racial hierarchy. That’s why blond, blue-eyed, Nordic German Aryans were considered superior to all while Jews were considered inferiors. Jews were considered an anti-race, the arch-enemies of the Aryans. All other coloured people were placed in between depending upon their external features.
  • The Nazi idea was simple. It says that the strongest race would survive, and the weaker ones would die. They considered Aryans to be the finest and they had to retain their purity and dominate the world.
  • Hitler believed that new territories had to be acquired so that they can increase the area of their mother country. This would also enable the settlers on new lands to retain an intimate link with the place of their origin. It would also increase the resources and power of the nation.
  • Hitler wanted a society of pure and healthy Nordic Aryans. According to his ideology, only Aryans were seen as worthy of prospering and multiplying against all others who were specified as ‘undesirable’.
  • Apart from Jews, there were other communities that were considered ‘undesirable’. There were many Gypsies and blacks living in Nazi Germany, considered ‘inferiors’ based on their race. They were widely persecuted.
  • Hitler was obsessively interested in the youth of the country. He believed a strong Nazi society could only be built by teaching children Nazi ideology. This could be done by controlling children both inside and outside school. Children were divided on the basis of their races.
  • Good German children were given schooling based on Nazi ideology. School textbooks were rewritten. Racial science was introduced into the curriculum for children.
  • Youth organizations were given responsibility for educating German youth in the ‘spirit of National Socialism’. Ten-year-olds had to enter Jung Volk. At the age of 14, boys were forced to join the Nazi Youth Organization.
  • According to Hitler, the fight for equal rights for men and women was wrong and would destroy society. Boys were taught to be violent and masculine while girls were taught from starting that they had to become good mothers and produce pure-blooded Aryan Children.

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