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    1. The Aryan Race, which was originally created as a form of categorization was used in the late 19th century to the mid 20th century to describe multiple types of people. While originally intended to be used as a neutral ethnolinguistic classification, the Nazis promoted it as more of a racial hierarchy, making it known that the Germanic peoples were the "Master race" who they then called Aryan. The main role for the Aryan Race in human history was to become the "Master Race," creating all kinds

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    The Holocaust is most often associated with the slaughter of millions of Jewish people. However they are not the only ones to be brutally murdered. In order to fit in with Hitler’s “Aryan Race”, one must be blond, blue eyed, German and essentially “perfect.” For Hitler, that meant that people with disabilities were to be slaughtered as well as sterilized. Some of the first to be exterminated are the mentally, physically and emotionally disabled. He used propaganda to make the Germans “okay” with

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    anything? They didn’t consider the Gypsies Germans. The reason all this started was because of a theory that the Germans made. Nazi Aryan Racial Theory is known as a racial designation; Houston Stewart Chamberian was the first to use the term “Aryan” to mean the “white race” it was the Aryans who invaded the conquered ancient India from the north. The Aryan Race Theory was a way that Germans were segregated in many different ways. This started in the 1700s when scholars discovered Sanskrit was

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    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

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    During World War two the National Socialists went to great lengths to establish what they believed to be acceptable cultural values of the German-ultimitaly Aryan race. Any modern artist was judged at the hand of the Third Reich and if they did not obide German policy, they were classified as degenerate and were banned from the ever-expanding Aryan Race. The lengths to which the national socialists went to, to degrade these artists, was unimaginable. They labeled proclaimed artworks as degenerate and stuck

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    German despot, Adolf Hitler needed another request for Germany and his alleged Aryan race. As a piece of accomplishing his definitive objective, he would need to take out any other second rate races. This malevolent arrangement later ended up known as the Holocaust. Hitler, with the guide of the Nazis and death camps, conveyed fear and demolition to the Jewish people group of Eastern Europe. One can follow the beginnings of the Holocaust as far back as 1933, when the Nazi party of Germany, drove

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    Volksgemeinshcaft

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    creating their own race of racially pure Germans, an Aryan race. And to do this they had to remove all the people they had thought of as unfit and against what they saw as the Aryan race, and create a Volksgemeinschaft. Volksgemeinschaft was a people’s community, where everybody was equal in race. The Nazi party was prepared to go to extreme lengths to ensure that they got this racially pure race, killing unfit Germans was a solution. Hitler wanted a community joined only by blood and race,

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    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

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    Do you think its fair, which in 1933-1945; 11 million people lost their lives just because of their race and religion? Do you think its right, for other countries just to stand by and not care for the survival of the people in concentration camps in Germany and Poland? Even before the holocaust, people were killed due to racism and prejudice. As we look back on those days, we know how bad the Holocaust was. People were killed in many brutal ways such as shootings, gas, and being burned alive. It’s

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    THE MISINTERPRETED SWASTIKA The word swastika is Sanskrit symbolizes “good fortune”. The swastika is an ancient religious icon used in India, where it has been and remains a sacred symbol of spiritual principles in Hinduism.In India from thousand of year clockwise swastik represented light or sun and anti-clockwise version represented darkness Swa in swastika means one’s own possession to imself or herself , natural and inborn.Asthi means present that exists or being. Therefore, swasthi means

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