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    this “natural selection”. 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

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    cause of death for about 6 million Jews during World War II. The Holocaust affected many, including Gypsies, homosexuals, mentally and physically disabled, and anyone who did not fit the description of Hitler’s “master race”. Hitler was an anti-Semitist who believed in a superior race and killed many Jewish people by putting them in concentration camps. Adolf Hitler was born in Austria on April 20, 1889 to Alois Hitler and Klara Polzl. He was the 4th out of 6 children. As a child he often fought with

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    Youth, Hitler was successfully able to corrupt the minds of children and spread propaganda across the country. Hitler Youth played an important role in the spread of Nazisim across Germany. Hitler Youth also proved Germany with a common goal: The Aryan Race. The Hitler Youth also added to the Nazi school system and made the kids more devoted. The Hitler Youth had a big impact on the people of Germany and its future. Founding The Hitler youth was founded

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    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

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    greatly impacted the way children thought in an extreme way; children should not have been used to further the Nazi cause. Background Adolf Hitler's vision was to keep the German race “pure”. He called the perfect race an Aryan master race. The ideal Aryan was blonde, blue eyed, and tall. “In an effort to keep the German race "pure," Heinrich Himmler began a program called "Lebensborn," Spring of

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    received in the program as well as to discuss their loss of identity because of the program. On December 12th, 1935 a program to help populate Germany with the ideal master race of blond hair blue eyed Aryan citizens opened up. These homes were created to house women while they were having babies to contribute to Germany’s new kind of race. The Lebensborn Program was created by Heinrich Himmler who was very anti-Semitic. Himmler’s belief and desire to give Germany what he thought was best with a disregard

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    solidarity. This united rich and poor Germans for a common national project without eliminating class differences. “Volksgemein Schaftor or people’s community”. Theories of racial hierarchy and social darwinism asserted the superiority of an Aryan Master race. The nazis sought to “exterminate” or at the very least impose segregation upon groups they considered to be “degenerate”. Some such groups were jews, homosexuals, blacks and the mentally and physically handicapped. By the early 1920’s Adolf

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    Swastika Significance

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    people trying to take over the world and exterminate the Jews during WWII in 1933-1945. Adolf Hitler became their leader and led Germany to exterminate between 5 and 6 million Jews during that time.. Hitler adopted the Swastika because of its ancient Aryan origins. The history of the Swastika goes way back 11,000 years ago with the Hindus. The Swastika was actually not hated but cherished. It was a religious symbol that meant good fortune. There is still a holiday celebrated in many Eastern cultures

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    Hitler in Nazi Germany who severely discriminated non-Aryan athletes. Hitler’s Nazi philosophy believed that Aryans who were Indo-Europeans with blonde hair, tall bodies, blue eyes, and sharp facial features were a superior race (Anspach, Almog). Hitler said that he “shall have no peace of mind until [he] had planted a seed of Nordic blood wherever the population stand in need of regeneration” (Trevor-Roper, Weinberg 358). Hitler believed that Aryans were superior in all social, mental, and physical

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    Jews. Aryan (NC) -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

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