Aditya Agarwal

HISTORY

Evaluate the role of ideology in the policies of one right wing, single party ruler, where social organisation was concerned (race relations, family values, education and propaganda etc)

Hitler was an iron willed man with great courage and dictatorship skills. He rose to power in the years 1924 to 1933 and finally achieved the role of Fuhrer Prinzip in 1934. He played with words and twisted the minds of the Germans towards Nazi philosophy. The main ideology followed by the Nazis was that of the superiority of the Aryan race, which was further implemented by the policy of Anti-Marxism by Hitler. In Hitler's view, all groups, races, or people carried within them traits that were immutably transmitted from one generation to the next. No individual could triumph over the inborn qualities of race. All of human history could be explained in terms of racial struggle.

Hitler used various techniques to spread his ideology of supremacy amongst the Germans as well as other European states. Hitler greatly believed in Darwinism and the theory of “survival of the fittest”, for the Nazis it meant the ability to multiply and in turn the accumulation of land to support the growing population. Hitler defined the Jews as a race that was considered inferior, various other groups such as the Poles, Gypsies and Slavs. Jews were sent off to concentration camps where they were treated as slaves which later gave rise to slave labour, a number of laws were laid down for the Jews whereby they need a passport to stay in the country and their belongings were seized. Many other groups were identified as an inferior were homosexuals and disabled people who were said to pollute the pure race, one such action of Hitler was when he entered the Grafeneck Asylum and killed all the mental patients as he found them a burden who were unproductive. Women had an important role to play of reproducing children who would be trained as soldiers, they were not allowed to work in the Nazi regime, and their national duty was to raise their family. Hitler clearly believed in the Volk or the peoples community where living space was to be made for the Aryan population to reside and create a racially pure community of Aryans with individual liberties.

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A major instrument used to spread Nazi ideology was propaganda. A ministry was set up known as the People’s Enlightenment headed by Joseph Goebbels. Propaganda campaigns were started which spread the Nazi philosophy. This made the German people believe that what the Nazis did was always right and good. Goebbels took control of various media such as the print media, visual media which included films, audio media such as radios and loudspeakers through which he controlled the publication and printing of matters so that every piece of work followed the Nazi ideology. Films were used as a great source as ...

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