Analysis Of Hitler's Notion Of German Identity

Guida Diehl was the founder and leader of the Newland Movement, which pre-dated the Nazi Party by at least six years. She came from a nationalist and anti-Semitic family, and only joined the Nazi Party in August 1930. Following the advice of Adolf Stocker, who hated Jews and supported the emancipation of unmarried women, she attended social-work school and later worked as a teacher of social work in Frankfurt. Diehl constantly preached a spiritualist, quasi-Christian, and nationalist message, that went against the postwar values of Americanism, materialism, and mammonism, which threatened to overpower Volk, God, and fatherland.

He believed that “Aryans” were the purified race. He pronounced that his race must remain pure in order to one day take over the world. For Hitler, the ideal "Aryan" was blond, blue-eyed, and tall. Although Hitler was not even close to looking like an Aryan, he showed the love he had for them. His mind-set was very racist and discriminatory. He had the idea of a “master race” and he discriminated anyone that wasn’t a part of it. He believed that the Germanic people were the only purified race and everyone else was filthy. The Nazis began to put their ideology into practice with the support of German scientists who believed that the human race could be improved by limiting the reproduction of people considered "inferior." The only way Hitler could carry on his “master race” was by getting rid of every non-aryan. He went on a hunting spree for every Jew, Gypsy, homo-sexual, etc. He thought they were not pure and didn’t belong on earth, and this expresses the hatred and how discriminatory he was towards anyone that wasn’t German. By doing this, the Nazis grew in power and had the German society following them, which shows the control and power of Hitler’s words and actions. When Hitler and the Nazis came to power, these beliefs became the government ideology and were spread in publicly displayed posters, on the radio, in movies, in classrooms, and in newspapers. Hitler traveled in planes from city to city, spreading the word of the Aryan-race. He spoke to radio stations, educated children in school, posted pictures and many posters, but he mostly gave brainwashing speeches that tricked most of the German Society to follow him. He used blind obedience to grow his idea. Although most Germans followed out of fear, others seemed to resist and go against

The Nazis also adopted the social Darwinist take on Darwinian evolutionary theory regarding the “survival of the fittest.” For the Nazis, survival of a race depended upon its ability to reproduce and multiply, its accumulation of land to support and feed that expanding population, and its vigilance in maintaining the purity of its gene pool, thus preserving the unique “racial” characteristics with which “nature” had equipped it for success in the struggle to survive. Since each “race” sought to expand, and since the space on the earth was finite, the struggle for survival resulted “naturally” in violent conquest and military confrontation. Hence, war even constant war was a part of nature, a part of the human condition. Hitler and the Nazi party outlined their racial enemies in clear and unequivocal terms. For Hitler and the Nazis, the Jews represented a priority enemy both within and outside Germany. Their allegedly racial and inferior genetic makeup spawned the exploitative systems of capitalism and communism. In their drive to expand, the Jews promoted and used these systems of government and state organization, including constitutions, proclamations of equal rights, and international peace, to undermine the race-consciousness of superior races like the German race and to

Although both documents express similar ideologies, the documents were written due to different conditions. Hitler’s ideas expressed in “Mein Kampf” evolved from his hatred of Jews and enmity of the German parliament; on the other hand, “Kokutai No Hongi” ideas resulted from the oligarchy’s need to maintain their status and Japanese assimilation of European and American cultures. Hitler provided inspiration and hope to most Germans that were dissatisfied with the government and the aftermath of World War I. The “Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan” pandered to their Samurai heritage and their discontent with West as a result of the Great Depression. The ideas in both documents would persuade any westerner, specifically American and British, to the same extend as it did with Germans and Japanese, to tirelessly support war.

Hitler utilized labelling to essentially create trigger words for the audience, to further provoke them into associating the relevant group with the traits related to that label. This allowed him to maintain the support and attention of his audience, and showed the level of command he had over his audience as he could evoke certain feelings, and promote certain ideas about groups based simply on the use of certain labelling words. These words added to Hitler’s tactics of persuasion by creating word association. When referring to Germany, he used words that conveyed strength. When speaking about enemy nations or about Jews and Marxists, he used words that alluded to weakness. One of his most used labels, pacifist, was used to refer to anyone and everyone that he disagreed with.

One of Hitler’s many ambitions for Germany was to achieve total Aryan supremacy. Hitler wanted to make all Germans perfect physical specimens. All of them tall and strong with blue eyes and blond hair though he himself was short, with brown eyes and hair. Hitler claimed that the Germans were the purest Aryans and therefore superior to all other peoples. Hitler made sure that all Germans knew this, he told the German people what they wanted to hear, that they were in fact the master race and that they were superior to any other persons. Although many were opposed to Hitler’s idea of Aryan supremacy the German people supported him enthusiastically regardless.

On September 1, 1939, Adolf Hitler and his army of Nazis attacked Poland, marking the first day of six years of war, fear, and suffering. Hitler had long since came to power in Germany. After World War I, Germany was stripped of many things; money, cultural worth, dignity and power. The Germans needed a place to look to for help; they needed a promising future, and Adolf Hitler promised them just that. Blaming the Jewish religion, Hitler began to rise from the masses of Germans. He convinced Germany that the Jews were “untermenschen”, of what roughly translates to in English as “subhuman” or less of a human. So eager for hope of a better way of life, the rest of Germany trusted and gave him the power he needed to carry out multiple acts of destruction.

In the case of Germany its political State’s purpose was to “preserve and improve the race [for] progress in human civilization.”(Mein Kampf 1). This concept of race in which Hitler speaks appears to be influenced by the work of Arthur de Gobineau who in his book The Inequality of the Human Races(1853-1855) discussed the superiority of the white in the Aryan race, “negroid and yellow” races. He writes, “yellow races are thus clearly superior to the black”(205) because “he commits none of the strange excesses so common among the negroes” such as “kill[ing] for the sake of killing.(206) Although these definitions and interpretations of race and Germans as the race that “transformed western mind in the fifth century” as Aryan are not correct in our time, they had real life consequences when Hitler declared that the folk state “right and obligation are: that purity of the racial blood should be guarded, so that the best types of human beings maybe preserved…[for] a more noble development of humility itself”(Mein

Peter Fritzche’s book, Germans into Nazis, contends that, “Germans became Nazis because they wanted to become Nazis and because the Nazis spoke so well to their interests and inclinations…however, voters did not back Hitler mainly because they share his hatred of the Jews…but because they departed from established political traditions in that they were identified at once with a distinctly popular form of ethnic nationalism and with the basic social reforms most Germans counted on to ensure national well-being.” (8-9) His argument rests on the notion that the Nazis had a vision for Germany that incorporated Germans into a national community, throwing off the restraints of a tired government, and propelled them towards a future that would

Hitler believed Germans were racially superior and deemed Jews and other ‘undesirables’ a threat and ‘impurity’ to the community. In 1933, before Nazi Germany came into

Adolf Hitler, Führer of Nazi Germany during World War II, was highly motivated by racial identification and its ability to form his ideal Germany. Hitler sought to have only once race in existence within his Germany: that of the Aryan people, who notably have blond hair and blue eyes. Hitler, who ironically didn’t personally meet the physical expectations of the Aryan race, thus strove to eliminate people of other, inferior races and those with other such distinguishable characteristics. Jews, homosexuals, ethnic minorities, and other such groups faced strong persecution just for the sake of their cultural or ethnic status. In their memoirs An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin and Destined to Witness: Growing up Black in

Right up front I put forward the startling proposition that Adolph Hitler was the reincarnation of none other than the Anunaki lord, Marduk -older brother of our lord Ningishzida. Although I have well informed intuitions about several other personalities, I will make a case with one pertinent historical example of undeniable significance -Adolph Hitler. In fact the entire phenomena of the meaning and intent of the Third Reich, the grandiose conceptual framework they embraced, their thirst for occult powers, the remarkably advanced technologies they were developing, and aspirations to global dominance of white, blue-eyed Aryans all point to the presence of at least one, if not several, key players in their ranks of extraterrestrial origins.

Point 4 of the “25 Points” stated that “Only a member of the race can be a citizen. A member of the race can only be one who is of German blood…” For the Nazis, German “blood” became the unifying factor. The common ethnic background became the basis for the creation of a nation. In addition to defining the members of the nation, the Nazi’s used race to define the outsiders. Point 8 stated that “any further immigration of non-citizens is to be prevented. We demand that all non-Germans … be forced immediately to leave the Reich.” The ethnic definition of the members (citizens) of the nation also allowed for the Nazis to exclude those who did not fit the definition from participation in the

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To begin, before the initiation of WW2, Hitler enforced extremely strict policies on the country of Germany. For instance, Hitler emphasized amongst the population, a clear divide between those who were Volksgenossen (pure German blood) and Gemeinshcaftsfremade (outsiders) (Adolf Hitler: Man and Monster). Visible distinctions were forced to be worn by the latter group such as the Star of David on those who were Jewish (Adolf Hitler: Man and Monster). The divide amongst the population was created mainly due to antisemitism which was extremely prevalent throughout the time. For example, Jewish people were blamed for Germany’s loss in WWI and in return, their businesses were boycotted, those who were lawyers got disbarred from practicing and their German citizenship was revoked (Adolf Hitler: Man and Monster). Additionally, police