Short Notes on the Peculiar Features of Nazi Thinking

Short Notes on the Peculiar Features of Nazi Thinking

The peculiar features of Nazi thinking were:

(i) That people exist for the state rather than the state for the people.

(ii) There was no equality between people but only racial hierarchy. In this hierarchy the German Aryans were at the top and the Jews at the lowest rung.

(iii) Fanatical belief in anti-Semitic dogmas. Their hatred for Jews in particular was like a new religion not only in its fierce dogmaticism and ritual but in its fierce intolerance. Jews were terrorised, pauperised, segregated, compelled to leave the country, ghettoised and killed in gas chambers.

(iii) They believed in extreme nationalism and glorified war. They aimed at uniting all people of German race under one State to form a greater Germany and conquer land and territory.

(iv) From a very young age children were indoctrinated both inside and outside school with intense Nazi ideology. Children were taught to be loyal, submissive, hate Jews and worship Hitler.

(v) Women were regarded as radically different from men. The fight for equal rights for men and women was thought detrimental for society. Women were seen as mere bearers of Aryan culture and race.