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Nazi Racial Ideology Essay

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The racial ideology and anti-Semitism of the Nazi party played a major role in both the internal and foreign policy of the Nazi government between 1933 and 1941. Racial motivations were responsible for policies which segregated Jews within German societies, stripped them of rights and titles, and eventually forced them into ghettos and death camps. Similar sentiments motivated German military activity, prompting the invasion of Poland, a country saturated with Jews in the eyes of the Nazis, and operations of genocide within the Baltic states.
Anti-Semitic ideology was responsible for much of Germany's internal policy between 1933 and 1941. Anti-Semitic sentiments inspired a range of policies designed to denounce and segregate Jewish Germans from the rest of the German population. It was believed among the Nazis that the Jews were an inferior race to the Germans, who themselves were the Aryan race, superior to all others. And so it was thought that to …show more content…

Several other factors such as political and military factors motivated foreign campaigns. One such motivation was the idea of Lebensraum, which in German means 'living space'. This idea was presented by Hitler in many of his speeches and is nowadays considered the main reason for Germany's ambitious military campaigns against Western Europe and the USSR. It entailed expanding Germany's land empire to acquire more resources and power for the Reich. Lebensraum was the main reason Hitler decided to invade France and most of Western Europe. Hitler also had political motivations to invade to USSR. He saw Bolshevism as a threat of equal magnitude to Judaism, often even conflating the two, and viewed it necessary to combat this threat. Other Nazi policies were designed to strengthen the power and the authority of the Reich. For example, the inclusion of foreign Nazi supporters in Einsatzgruppen, was a policy designed to bolster the strength of the

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