class 9 history topic: the nazi worldview

• The crimes that nazi committed were linked to a system of belief and set of practices.
• Nazis ideology was synonymous with Hitler’s world view. According to this there was no equality between people but only a racial hierarchy.
• In this view blond, blue-eyed were Nordic Germans at the top while Jews were at the lowest rung. They regarded as anti-race.
• All other colored people were placed in between depending upon their external features.
• His ideas were used by racist thinkers and politicians to justify imperial rule.
• According to nazi strongest race would survive and weak one should perish and dominate the world.
• He believed that new territories had to be acquired for settlement to retain and intimate link with the place of their origin.
• Poland became the laboratory for racial experiment.

ESTABLISHMENT OF RACIAL STATE

• Nazi wanted only a society of pure and healthy Nordic Aryans. 
• They were considered desirable as they were seen as worthy, prospering and multiplying against all others.
• Who were undesirable, impure or abnormal had no right to exist.
• Gypsies and blacks were considered as racial inferiors and widely persecuted.
• Russians and Poles were considered subhuman and were forced to work as slave labour and many of them died through hard work and starvation.
• Jews had been stereotyped as killers of Christ and were barred from owning land.
• They lived in separately marked areas called Ghettos.
• From 1933-1938, Nazis terrorized, pauperized and segregated them to leave the country.
• In 1939-1945, they aimed at concentrating in certain areas and killed them in gas chambers in Poland.

THE RACIAL UTOPIA

• Under the shadow of war, Nazi proceeded to realize their murderous racial ideal. Genocide and war became the two sides of the same coin.
• Poles were forced to leave their homes and properties later occupied by ethnic Germans.
• Poles were herded like cattle In the other part  called General Government.
• The polish intelligentsia were murdered to keep the entire people intellectually and spiritually servile.