Essay about Nazi Use of Darwinism

It is a reasonable conclusion that to Hitler, the restoration of Germany and the damning of the Treaty of Versailles, specifically returning Germany’s right to be an equal in the world society, are linked. In a speech givin at Dusseldorf Hitler even went as far as promising to withdraw the signature that indicted Germany for starting World War One. Here Hitler also draws the comparison to returning German pride with reinstating the military heritage taken in the Treaty of Versailles. These pairings that Hitler chose to address shows the direct influence that Hitler felt the Treaty of Versailles had on weakening the German people and causing a separation from their heritage after 1919. These ideas of Hitler were not unfounded. He claimed in his speech at Munich 1922 that Germans were burdened at the end of World War I with an 8 million mark debt of their own, and the debt of the other allied countries, with similar sentiment in other speeches . The actual treaty confirms this by showing a 10+ billion mark reparations clause in section 232 right after the War Guilt Clause . A scholar by the name of Graham Darby claims that the treaty of Versailles is not the primary cause of the economic downturn and therefore not a primary influence on Hitler’s economic policy. The data however, points to one crucial fact that Mr. Darby neglects to mention in his article, the Dawes Plan. The Dawes plan was enacted during 1924 and

In 1919, Treaty of Versailles was made after the World War I. Germany and Austria-Hungary was blamed for the Great War and was imposed financial debts and territorial dismemberment on them. Germans could not afford the huge debts and during the 1920s the Great Depression which started in the USA impacted the economies of the whole world. There was high unemployment and the prices of daily necessities were high. The German government was distrusted. People chose to believe a man Adolf Hitler with his extreme ideas, and Racism that promised to make Germany stand up again. After Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, he had secretly built up a military and

With the ideas of Darwinism the seeds of eugenics were also sown , here a biological shaping of its citizens and those deemed beneficial encouraged those that were not were to be managed. The bodily appearance of groups was used as an indicator of a pre-disposition towards anti-social behaviour based upon the conception of they being more similar to animals and thus less rational, more inclined to criminality and less deserving of rights. This domestically this manifested itself in governing in a biopolitical way and of policies that discouraged these groups from having families and carrying on their genetic traits, many that were physically and mentally disabled or ill were sent to asylums, the poor to work houses. Taken to the extreme it was used as justification for the genocide of Jews

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

The Advancement presents several strong arguments regarding Bush’s claims on modern naturalism. Bush’s strongest argument lies within his view that the modern naturist worldview as relative and deceitful. The presentation of the logical conclusion of the evolutionary worldview, which led to the Nazi movement in Germany, was an extremely powerful way to expose the logical trappings of this advancement mindset. The gauge in which humanity views its progress and achievement through naturalistic thought is subjective and skewed to this atheistic philosophy. Bush unveils advancement thinking as false by revealing the lack of inevitable progress within human history. The continued advancement of

To what extents did Hitler’s love of racial purity go? Who was willing to meet these expectations? Where were these catastrophic results contained, if they were contained at all? The program was aptly named Lebensborn, or “fount of life”. Over 20,000 children came into the world as a result of the Lebensborn Program. The Lebensborn Program was an attempt to ensure Hitler’s Germanic empire, one of the most awful men in history headed this event, and Lebensborn spread like a virus over Europe.

The end of the First World War left extreme poverty and unrest in Germany. Germany had been forced to pay huge amounts of money and goods in compensation. Many German lands was taken away (O’ Neal), which these losses in the war made people think that life was cheap and there was nothing to lose. Many people became desperate and wanted a change; therefore, Hitler came along and was a voice of hope for change that people wanted. Many believed that he was going to help them retrieve

Germany was now desperately seeking a strong leader that would rescue their country. The domestic crisis was the source of their anguish and Hitler who called for self determination and the abolition of the Treaty of Versailles appealed to the people. According to the revisionist views “The depression also helped to destroy German democracy and contributed to Hitler’s rise to power, and it was his dictatorship which brought war”. The rise of the Nazis cannot therefore be blamed solely on the reparations, the Weimar Republic and the Wall Street Crash both independent factors from the consequences of WWI highly contributed to the rise of the Nazis.

After World War I, Germany was deeply influenced by Hitler’s ideology. He was able to influence a nation to support his view of an superior race and Germany would be a great nation again. The field of social psychology can be applied to how Hitler was able to manipulate his country into following his ideology. One tactic that Hitler used was the foot in the door phenomenon. By fulfilling little promise to the people of Germany, the citizen were more likely to agree with bigger demands under Hitler’s authority. The conditions after World War I was idea for Hitler to gain a foot in the door. The economy in Germany crashed and left with a massive debt because of the war. When Hitler promised to make Germany great again and created more jobs for

Richard Rhodes. Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust. New York: A.A. Knopf, 2002

Even though Germany was left in a period of struggle and economic weakness after WW1, Adolf Hitler would take a stand by creating a party that would help refine the structure of the economy. This party, when abbreviated, was called Nazi, would also create harsh laws and unrelentless punishment. Due to the Nazi party’s quick growth, there was an immediate impact on lifestyle and politics for the people of Germany. The long term impact brought forth by the consequences or legacy of the Nazi party included a population decrease and an increase in deaths. To make both of these impacts, Hitler had to overcome many hard challenges.

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

Adolf Hitler organized the most inhumane killing operation that the world has ever seen. Adolf Hitler, the Final Solution, and eventually the Nuremberg Trials together make up three of the most important aspects of the Holocaust. Before Hitler became the dictator of Germany, he obtained his anti-semitism from his political teachers. Afterwards, he used his knowledge and hatred to attempt to exterminate all Jewry from Germany. This process was known as the Final Solution. The Final Solution was Hitler’s attempt at exterminating the Jewish population in Europe. He was so dedicated to this task that it surmounted winning the war itself. Finally, the main opposition of the legitimacy of the Holocaust comes from neo nazis who believe that

The Treaty of Versailles which was established after World War One, contributed to the embarrassment and humiliation Germany was faced with. Land and Military were lost, but most of all respect from the German population . At this stage Germany became remote and the only person German people had hope in was Hitler. To the German community Hitler was their ultimate saviour . The combined actions provided rich material for Hitler to use in supporting him in the rise of power. The Treaty also started a process where the German economy was rebuilt bases around the loans led by the US . This made the nation especially weak when the Great Depression came. The German economy fell soon after due to invasion from the French as it was impossible for Germany to pay the reparations. The German currency lost its value and this was the start to the middle classes falling into poverty . In 1924 the crisis was ended by the Dawes Plan, which re-established the value of the

Social Darwinism was a concept that emerged later in the nineteenth century suggesting that what applied to nature could also apply to human society – that the strong prevail over the weak, that superior races prevail over inferior races. This concept with its theme of struggle and survival of the fittest appealed to Hitler. “Struggle” wrote Hitler “is the father of all things…He who wants to live must fight and who does not want to fight in this world where external struggle is the law of life has no right to exist”*.