GRMN 2301: INSIDE NAZI GERMANY FINAL
NSDAP - Answers -National Socialist Deutsch (German) Workers' Party (1920-1945)
Hitler becomes Chancellor - Answers -in January 30, 1933.
But, National Socialist ideas were around earlier:
- WWI (1914-1918)
- The Treaty of Versailles
Tenets of Nazism - Answers -Anti-Semitism, Lebensraum, Nationalism, Leadership
Principle, Social Darwinism, Pan-Germanism, Anti-Communism
Anti-Semitism - Answers -The hatred of Jews based on the notion of race or religion.
According to Hitler, the survival of the racial German identity was dependent on the
exclusion or extermination of the Jews. (Hitler further claimed that the Jews are
conspiring to keep this master race from rightfully ruling the world, by diluting its racial
and cultural purity and by convincing the Aryan to believe in equality rather than
superiority and inferiority)
"Lebensraum" (Living Space) - Answers -The territory a nation believes is needed for its
natural development and survival. Nazi Germany believed themselves, the Aryans, the
superior class and in need of taking over Eastern Europe for living space.
Regeneration of the Nation - Answers -The creation of a new "People's Community"
after the humiliation of WWI and the economic depression.
- The idea was that the institutions of state, society and culture would be remodeled to
make a racially homogenous nation involved in making Germany great again.
Necessity for Violence - Answers -Violence was needed in the struggle to achieve all of
these goals
Pan-Germanism - Answers -The unification of the German people in one nation under
the leadership of one man (Fuhrer).
Social Darwinism - Answers -A modern name given to various theories of society which
claim to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to
sociology and politics. This was Hitler's way of justifying his entire ideology, because it
was "Natural Law"
Alienation - Answers -Because of the industrial revolution and urbanization of the time,
the German people were alienated from the struggle for existence/the true meaning of
life.
Führerprinzip - Answers -The unification of the people under the leadership of one man
Volksgemeinschaft - Answers -Eliminating the social classes and being just one people.
, The Nümberg Laws (1935) - Answers --Offer criteria for identifying Jews
- According to this chart, Hitler categorized people into groups and eliminated certain
groups
- This is used as a basis for the exclusion, deportation and mass murder of millions of
people
Summarize the basic ideology of Nazism - Answers -The main ideology of Nazism
focused on the idea of regenerating the nation into a new "people's community" under
the leadership of the Fuhrer (the leader). This could only be brought about through the
creation of a racially homogenous nation that was the Aryan race. Nazism's Anti-Semitic
view saw the Jews as a racial impurity that had to be exterminated in order to make
Germany great again.
Mein Kampf: Hitler and the "Power of the Idea" - Answers -- Program of Mein Kampf:
Overcoming differences and creating a reconciled German state and community based
on race
- Overcoming Marxism (Communism)
a. The Jewish question and Marxism blends into one
b. Hitler doesn't like Marxism because it has an international plane: wants the workers
of all countries to unite. Hitler wanted to focus solely on the German workers. The
international view weakens the national integrity of every individual country (and the
Jews supported this international vision). Hitler saw the Jews as the pure driving force
of these aims to weaken individual nationality
Mein Kampf: Artist & Dictator - Answers -- Nazi view: the destruction of the old Reich
and the chaos after 1918 made the Spirit of the German art fragile and Hitler needed to
rescue the spirit by revolutionizing the perception of the world
- "Genius": an artist is born with great visions and implements them
- The modern artist is creative, violent, revolutionary, and conservative
- How the notion of artist relates to Nazi politics:
a. Politics is racial, the struggle of one race against others
b. German race is the culture-creating race
c. Nazi politics aims to make race real, render it visible
d. Nazi politics has to eliminate the resistance to this artistic project
e. Race = SOUL
f. Race is not physical. For Hitler, race is that there's a spirit inside and out and that
they are both one.
Mein Kampf: Nation and Race - Answers -3 Types of Races:
1) The Founders/Culture Creators: The Aryans
- These are the creators of culture, they are the ones that everyone follows.
- Aryan: the oldest tribes of Europeans identified. Then adopted as a term by racial
science in 19th century. For Hitler, many Europeans are Aryans, but Germans are the
best Aryans because their blood is the most pure of all
NSDAP - Answers -National Socialist Deutsch (German) Workers' Party (1920-1945)
Hitler becomes Chancellor - Answers -in January 30, 1933.
But, National Socialist ideas were around earlier:
- WWI (1914-1918)
- The Treaty of Versailles
Tenets of Nazism - Answers -Anti-Semitism, Lebensraum, Nationalism, Leadership
Principle, Social Darwinism, Pan-Germanism, Anti-Communism
Anti-Semitism - Answers -The hatred of Jews based on the notion of race or religion.
According to Hitler, the survival of the racial German identity was dependent on the
exclusion or extermination of the Jews. (Hitler further claimed that the Jews are
conspiring to keep this master race from rightfully ruling the world, by diluting its racial
and cultural purity and by convincing the Aryan to believe in equality rather than
superiority and inferiority)
"Lebensraum" (Living Space) - Answers -The territory a nation believes is needed for its
natural development and survival. Nazi Germany believed themselves, the Aryans, the
superior class and in need of taking over Eastern Europe for living space.
Regeneration of the Nation - Answers -The creation of a new "People's Community"
after the humiliation of WWI and the economic depression.
- The idea was that the institutions of state, society and culture would be remodeled to
make a racially homogenous nation involved in making Germany great again.
Necessity for Violence - Answers -Violence was needed in the struggle to achieve all of
these goals
Pan-Germanism - Answers -The unification of the German people in one nation under
the leadership of one man (Fuhrer).
Social Darwinism - Answers -A modern name given to various theories of society which
claim to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to
sociology and politics. This was Hitler's way of justifying his entire ideology, because it
was "Natural Law"
Alienation - Answers -Because of the industrial revolution and urbanization of the time,
the German people were alienated from the struggle for existence/the true meaning of
life.
Führerprinzip - Answers -The unification of the people under the leadership of one man
Volksgemeinschaft - Answers -Eliminating the social classes and being just one people.
, The Nümberg Laws (1935) - Answers --Offer criteria for identifying Jews
- According to this chart, Hitler categorized people into groups and eliminated certain
groups
- This is used as a basis for the exclusion, deportation and mass murder of millions of
people
Summarize the basic ideology of Nazism - Answers -The main ideology of Nazism
focused on the idea of regenerating the nation into a new "people's community" under
the leadership of the Fuhrer (the leader). This could only be brought about through the
creation of a racially homogenous nation that was the Aryan race. Nazism's Anti-Semitic
view saw the Jews as a racial impurity that had to be exterminated in order to make
Germany great again.
Mein Kampf: Hitler and the "Power of the Idea" - Answers -- Program of Mein Kampf:
Overcoming differences and creating a reconciled German state and community based
on race
- Overcoming Marxism (Communism)
a. The Jewish question and Marxism blends into one
b. Hitler doesn't like Marxism because it has an international plane: wants the workers
of all countries to unite. Hitler wanted to focus solely on the German workers. The
international view weakens the national integrity of every individual country (and the
Jews supported this international vision). Hitler saw the Jews as the pure driving force
of these aims to weaken individual nationality
Mein Kampf: Artist & Dictator - Answers -- Nazi view: the destruction of the old Reich
and the chaos after 1918 made the Spirit of the German art fragile and Hitler needed to
rescue the spirit by revolutionizing the perception of the world
- "Genius": an artist is born with great visions and implements them
- The modern artist is creative, violent, revolutionary, and conservative
- How the notion of artist relates to Nazi politics:
a. Politics is racial, the struggle of one race against others
b. German race is the culture-creating race
c. Nazi politics aims to make race real, render it visible
d. Nazi politics has to eliminate the resistance to this artistic project
e. Race = SOUL
f. Race is not physical. For Hitler, race is that there's a spirit inside and out and that
they are both one.
Mein Kampf: Nation and Race - Answers -3 Types of Races:
1) The Founders/Culture Creators: The Aryans
- These are the creators of culture, they are the ones that everyone follows.
- Aryan: the oldest tribes of Europeans identified. Then adopted as a term by racial
science in 19th century. For Hitler, many Europeans are Aryans, but Germans are the
best Aryans because their blood is the most pure of all
