Scientific Racism and Antisemitism

Imagine you are having a normal day with your family and all of a sudden the police come to your house and ask you to come with them. In the late 1930s, Hitler came to power and began going after the Jews in Europe. He would have soldiers go to their houses and take them to concentration camps. Hitler created a race that he thought was a superior race called Aryans. They had to have blonde hair, blue eyes, and be tall.

Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party, had ambitions to create a perfect race. This meant eliminating the Jewish race along with other undesirable races and disabled humans.

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.

Nazism developed several theories concerning races. The Nazis claimed to scientifically measure a strict hierarchy of human race. Once firmly in power, Hitler’s plans for the ending of the struggle between the Aryan race and the “inferior races” was set to work. These races feared as a biological threat to the master race purity. At the bottom of this hierarchy were “parasitic” races which were perceived to be dangerous to society. Hitler’s Nazi theory also claimed that his Aryan race is superior to all other races, that a

-The Aryan race all started in prison when Hitler wrote the Mein Kampf. In the Mein Kampf he wrote about his racial beliefs and the Aryan race. The Aryan race was the race that Hitler supported and was part of his beliefs. The Aryan race is a race of “purity”, meaning that if they stayed “pure” they would one day rule. The perfect Aryan has blond hair, blue eyes, and was tall. The “Aryan” race was not as glory as it sounded and did not work out for Hitler like he hoped. The race was threatened by a couple of things, one being Aryans married with non-Aryans. The Aryan race was considered the “master race” and was Hitler’s belief.

The nazis were led to Genocide though the span of twelve destructive and harrowing years for eleven million people; including Jews, Roma, the handicapped, Poles, Blacks, homosexuals, and many more groups of people. Genocide is the act of removing a certain race, culture, or group of people. The Nazis were a political group of people “who holds and acts brutally in accordance with extreme racist or authoritarian views.” Adolf Hitler, who became the leader of Germany and was also the leader of Nazi Party. Hitler wrote a book and was certain on how he wanted Germany to be led.

It’s difficult to imagine a society where millions upon millions are murdered because of their religion and race. According to A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust “Approximately 11 million people were killed because of Nazi genocidal policy” (“Victims”). Not only did they get killed because they were Jews. Some people were undesirable by Nazi standards because of who they were their genetic or cultural origins, or health conditions. These included Jews, Gypsies, Poles and other Slavs, and people with physical or mental disabilities. Others were Nazi victims because of what they did. These victims of the Nazi regime included Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, the dissenting clergy, Communists, Socialists, a socials, and other political enemies” (victims”). They didn’t consider Jews as a race they consider it as a religion. According to the Jewish virtual library “Hitler focused his propaganda against the Versailles Treaty, the "November criminals," the Marxists and the visible, internal enemy No. 1, the "Jew," who was responsible for all Germany's domestic problems. In the twenty-five-point programme of the NSDAP announced on 24 February 1920, the exclusion of the Jews from the Volk community, the myth of Aryan race supremacy and extreme nationalism were combined with "socialistic" ideas of profit-sharing and nationalization inspired by ideologues like Gottfried Feder. Hitler's first written utterance on political questions dating from

Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 and his sudden control over Germany sparked a new age of reform within the new “Nazi-state” (Hunt 848). As Nazism became a major aspect of everyday life in Germany, Hitler plotted against his enemies and those he blamed for Germany’s defeat in World War I: the Jewish race. In his biography, Mein Kampf, Hitler discusses the artistic, social, and technological superiority of Germany (“Aryans”), why he believes the Aryans are the ultimate dominant human race, and he makes many anti-Semitic remarks against the Jews. (Lualdi 224). In 1935, the “Nuremberg Laws” were enacted to deny Jewish Germans of their citizenship; this ultimately led Hitler to carry out his “Final Solution,” in which he hoped to fully

According to Hitler true Aryans followed the description of the multiple human characteristics if you did not follow the description of an Aryan you had no meaning. Hitler also believed that Aryans were the “master race” which means they were better than any other race, “ Aryans had the duty to control the world.” Hitler also believed that anyone who wasn’t Aryan was threatening. Hitler made up the definition of Aryan but, according to the Indian aged language Aryan actually means “ noble.” The Aryan race means a lot of things though according to Hitler Aryan meant perfect,

Hitler’s vision was that the Aryan race was superior to other races. These races included the inhabitants of northwestern Europe. Hitler considered all of the Germans to be Aryan. Not just the ethnic Germans, but Belgians, Scandinavians,

The ideological mindset of the perpetrators was to wipe out the Jews. The Jewish population was flourishing, and out of direct orders for the troops of war the Jews were heading towards mass extermination. Territory was vital, Hitler insisted, because the expanding population of a race required it. Without new territory to support an expanding population, Hitler believed the race would ultimately stagnate and face eventual disappearance. The Nazis also postulated the idea of a qualitative hierarchy of races, in which not all races were equal. Hitler believed that Germans were members of a superior group of races that he called “Aryan.” The German “Aryan” race was gifted above all other races, Hitler asserted, with this biological superiority

From about 1920–1945, the National Socialist German Worker’s Party, commonly abbreviated Nazi, was a political party which held nationalist and racist ideologies. Emphasising a great deal on military and complete totalitarianism, the Nazi Party sent a wave of unrest through all of Europe. While the party ushered in what was thought to be a new Germany with its Third Reich, many Nazi values were questionable. With a lasting political impact, the Nazis caused quite the stir before, during, and after the second World War.

In chapter 3 of Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples, titled “Colonizing Knowledges”, Linda Tuhiwai Smith examines the Enlightenment period and the resulting imperialism that arose from the Industrial Revolution. Smith focuses on how these things affected the concept of knowledges, and how European ideas about what knowledge is and how it is gathered affected the indigenous peoples of the various lands that Europe colonized. Siobhan Somerville’s article “Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body” focuses on how sexuality was conceptualized through a reliance on already formed racial ideologies, and how this affected both people of

As Hitler climbed the political ranks of the new German government, so did his ideology that people of Jewish (non-German) descent were inferior. Thus, he concluded that they were a subhuman species that needed to be eradicated in order for the “Aryan Race” to prosper. The Aryan Race is synonymous with blonde hair, blue eyes, and most importantly, white skin. One could draw a parallel between this rise in German white supremacy to that of the common idea in the United States that races that were not white, were also inferior. One of Hitler’s main goals was to create a “stronger”, more “homogenous”, Germany. This meant only those with superior qualities, such as - and limited to - those in the Aryan Race, would be allowed to coexist within the

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