Criticism In Adolf Hitler's Ideology Of Greatness?

To us, Adolf Hitler was known as an evil dictator who did horrendous things such as create the most infamous thing the “Holocaust” which resulted in around six million innocent Jews being killed. He started WWII which ended up with around 50-80 million people dead. But did Hitler do anything that was positive towards Germany or even the world. Adolf Hitler was a powerful leader with most of Germany behind him, so the question remains did Hitler do anything good?

Katz writes this essay with the purpose to educate his students about Nazi ethics so that they can avoid the moral reasoning used by the Nazi’s. In order to articulate the reasoning of the Nazi’s, Katz uses three main ethical ideologies used in the Nazi society; Technological Neutrality, Doubling, and Integration and Ideology in engineering. Technological neutrality embodies the more traditional view on technological ethics in which “the design and creation of a technological artifact must be separate from its use”[1]. This allowed the technological professionals in the Nazi community to justify their actions by declaring that they were only responsible for the technological aspect of their creations and not the applications. On the other hand the concept of doubling does not require justification as it embodies the ideology that professionals within the Nazi Society apply a, “Division of self into two functioning wholes,” each with their “own criteria for good.”[2] This allowed the

In spite of the fact that it is a commonly known historical piece of the Holocaust, it’s authenticity has been questioned. Some conspiracies deny that it even happened at all. Through the analyzation of Hitler’s own violent anti-Semitism, powerful position, and ability to convey Nazi propaganda into action, one can see how he is the sole cause of the Holocaust.

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

Therefore this paper will focus on similar critiques, arguing that a combination of the long history of anti-Semitism and “scientific” racism interpretations presented by Friedlander and Weiss provides the most logical interpretations of the Nazi government and the origins of the Holocaust.

When referring to the ‘Holocaust’ – defined by (Oxford Dictionary) as ‘Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war:’ – we have to take into account the global awareness and knowledge of that time. We, as a planet, have come to acknowledge the ‘Holocaust’ not as the aforementioned and defined, but as the time in which, between 1939 and 1945, Nazi Germany, lead by Adolf Hitler, persecuted and massacred approximately six million Jews, as well as a plethora of other individuals, including the mentally handicapped, communists, poles, gypsies, homosexuals (just to name a few), as well as attempting to conquer the world. It is estimated that no less than ten million casualties were a result of the Nazi agenda, out of combat (The History Place). Giving reference to the question, in this essay I will outline and counterpoint two keys questions when regarding the approaches of functionalists and intenationalists, firmly rooting them as the crux as my debate, which are: Did Adolf Hitler have a so-called ‘master plan’ in bringing about the Holocaust, and where did the initiative come from? I will now proceed to open the debate, by first giving a brief outline as both approaches and what they encompass.

The horrific events that took place during the Holocaust marked a significant reversal in the human evolution. The origin of the cruel acts immediately came into question, with historians arguing that the ‘final solution’ was either predetermined and planned by those in power or it was stumbled upon and orchestrated in a bottom-up approach, these notions are known as either functionalism or intentionalism. This essay will argue in support of the latter, drawing evidence from various academic journals, Adolf Hitler’s January 1939 speech and Reinhard Heydrich’s instructions to the chiefs of the Einsatzgruppen in 1939. To accurately support this perspective, this essay aims to provide some background as to where intentionalism originates from

Before I begin the process of inditing my opinions regarding the two texts, it's only fair that I explain why William Deresiewicz's article intrigued me more than usual. Given my tendency to digress, I sincerely hope this doesn't turn into a short story! Ever since I turned 12, my parents had a definite idea of which occupation they wanted me to enter. I was never presented with a choice. Becoming a 'doctor' was almost like an axiom! Naturally, my parents nearly collapsed at the thought of their only daughter joining a 'liberal arts' university. Kindly take a moment to imagine how distinctly Adolf Hitler would stand out amidst a crowd of people in 2015. (If he were reborn, of course. Thank goodness for unalterable mortality!) That's exactly

A central theme of Hitler’s thinking was the concept of struggle. In the nineteenth century the naturalist Charles Darwin had explained how in the world of nature when the environment changed some of the species with favourable variations survived better that others. Darwin called this “natural selection”.

Although it is difficult to rank the existing treatises on Hitler on a scale of values, it is clear that even the best of them, including Bullock 's standard volume, have somehow failed to classify Hitler properly from a sociological or socio-historical perspective (Kater 244-245).

On April 20, 1889, a demon was brought into this world. His name was Adolf Hitler. He was born in the family quarters of the Pommer Inn in Braunau, a small city on the Austrian border. The child was unhealthy and his mother, Klara, worried that young Adolf would not survive. Klara provided much love and attention to her baby, which Adolf would later take advantage of to get what he wanted (Smith 50). Despite his self-centeredness, Adolf held a deep bond with his mother which united them throughout his childhood. On the other hand, Alois, Adolf’s father, failed to play an important role in Adolf’s development. Alois spent the majority of his time away from the customs station with his friends

“Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all.” (Hitler 137) Hitler was driven by his hunger for power, causing the death of millions of innocent people. No one could have known the dramatic effect this man would soon have on the world.

The Rise of Hitler During the 1920's and early 1930's Germany was trying to recover from World War. It had to pay reparations and try to rebuild the economy from bankruptcy. It was because of the weaknesses of the economy and the Weimar Government, together with the growing popularity of the Nazis that Hitler was able to become Chancellor.

“Ideologies-isms, which to the satisfaction of their adherents can explain everything and every occurrence by deducing it from a single premise” (Arendt. 315) Nazi Ideology had at its core, a politically and indeed racially motivated perversion of the Darwinian concept of a natural hierarchy of species, in which the stronger/more successful species would inevitably replace the weaker ones. Darwin’s profound insight into the ways in which organisms evolve was warped and misrepresented by the Nazis, who filtered it through their racist and nationalist worldview, justifying the extermination of Jews and other supposed degenerate races by claiming they were following and indeed implementing a Law of Nature.

Adolf Hitler, to some, was a great ruler, but to others he was a murderer. Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party and was the dictator of Germany. He ordered to have millions of Jews murdered or thrown in prisons.