Tag: causes, aim and impact of nazism

Nazis felt that Jews were the traitors. They blamed Jews for conspiring with allies during the First World War. Nazis explained that the cause of the hardship of the Germans were the Jews who exploited the German economy. To turn out the Jews from Germany was the main feature of their ideology.

Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 in Austria.  His father was a Custom Officer. He spent his youth in poverty. During the First World War, he enrolled for the army, act as a messenger in the front, became corporal, and earned medals for bravery. The German defeat horrified him and the Versailles Treaty made him furious. In 1919, he joined a small group called the German Workers' Party. Later he took over this organisation and renamed it National Socialist German Workers' Party. This party came to be known as the Nazi Party.

Hitler brought out an agreement with Italy and Japan in September 1940. This agreement was known as "Tripartite Pact" which strengthened Hitler's claims to international power.

Children in Nazi Germany were repeatedly told that women were radically different from men. It was told by Nazi's that the fight for equal rights for men and women was wrong and it would destroy society.

During the time of the Nazi region in Germany the society was divided into desirables and undesirables.The undesirables in Germany were mainly the Jews but other undesirables were Communist, Gypsies and Polish Christians. And desirables were Nordic Aryans.  

The pure Aryan Nordic Germans were considered to be 'desirable' in the Nazi society. They had some distinguishing features like blue eyes and light hair. However, it did not include handicaps as they were considered 'undesirable'.

Hitler believed in extreme nationalism. According to him, the State is above all. It should have held all political, economic and social programmes. He wanted to root out liberalism and communism.

At the end of II World War, an International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg was set up to prosecute Nazi war criminals for Crimes against Peace, for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity.

Hitler wanted to drive out the Jewish from Germany because he believed that the Jewish had some conspiracy to control Germany and that they would stab Germans in the back whenever it would suit them. Also, the majority of financial institutions, banks, and large companies were controlled by Jewish people and he believed that Germany lost 1st world war because of Jewish capitalism.