racial policies

Adolf Hitler’s conception of the Jew and the effects of that cultural contagion upon the German volk was pretty crazy. His idea of the negative reach of this Jew problem included almost everything he considered weak and non-German. Christianity and the church were at their root part of the Jew influence in Hitler’s view. Bolshevism was a Jewish conspiracy in Hitler’s mind too. Hitler’s idealised conception of what it meant to be a pure Aryan German was located in the blood in his pseudo-scientific belief about this. Eugenics was all the rage in the 1920s and 30s. Social Darwinism was a part of this pop cultural misunderstanding of the emerging biological information coming to the fore. Hitler, racism and in the blood. The German medical and scientific establishment were proponents of ideas about selective breeding and culling of perceived bad stock. So, were many doctors and scientists in Europe and the United States. The human beings they called Negroes were considered lesser than those classified as Caucasians, as were Asians and others with different coloured skin tones. Nazism was not alone in its hierarchical judgements and evaluations of human beings. The fact that under the Nazi regime these German doctors and nurses would oversee the state sponsored murders and sterilisations of hundreds of thousands of disabled and mentally deficient human beings from 1933 to 1945 is the key difference. The Nazi gas chambers would cut their teeth on this early work of the Third Reich. Diesel, a French/German invention, would play a role in this killing machine.Continue Reading