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The Nazi Of The Third Reich And The Notorious Nazi Party

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The empire of the Third Reich and the notorious Nazi Party will forever go down in history as one of the most brutal and evil government organizations of the 20th century. Inspired by the ideologies of ethnic cleansing and how Germans should be the purest of all races, these ideas became rampant all across the country, and many citizens believed that this horrible wrongness could be justified, it would be for the greater good of the true Aryan people. The Nazis sent millions of innocent minorities to their deaths because they were seen as unequal and “life unworthy of life” However, history likes to forget the hundreds of thousands that didn’t die in camps, but died in hospitals at the hands of trusted physicians. Inspired by famous …show more content…

These ideas were born into a time when the very concepts of what race was and how we differed as human beings was just starting to be explored. For centuries people had lived in an age of ignorance, but that time was coming to pass. The age of religious hysteria of the Great Awakening was slowly fading, while the time of science and engineering was developing. People knew very little about the world around them, and wanted to become educated to the theories of science. People knew that different races existed, but wanted to know why. God had indeed created them differently, but for what purpose? This question and more sparked society’s curiosity into the new topics of race and origins. Scientists were very intrigued about the development of the human and devoted many years of study. One of the most famous researchers was naturalist Charles Darwin, who wrote The Descent of Man in 1871. Darwin compared man to animals, and that in order to produce healthy offspring, the fittest could only survive to pass on the desired traits. “With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health.” Darwin also agreed that races were indeed different species of the human race. Races had “…many differences in structure and constitution.”. Scientists even compared blacks skulls to the ones of chimpanzees, noting the similarity in contrast

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