10-05-2006, 07:43 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by Cheese
Again only partially true....and maybe not even a good percentage.
In choosing to use anti-Semitism as a tool in his drive for political power, Hitler singled out the Jews of Germany as scapegoats.
According to Hitler, the Jews were to blame for Germany's social and economic problems. He counted on the fact that there had been many long years of religious prejudice against Jews in the minds of the German people; but he counted even more on a new form of anti-Semitism called racism.
Racism is the belief that race determines human abilities and qualities, making some groups inferior and some superior. This idea was widespread in Hitler's time. What made racism so convincing in Hitler's propaganda was the fact that the peoples of the world may indeed be divided into several races, each with its own physical characteristics.
Hitler claimed that each race had its own particular blood. He warned of the dangers of allowing these blood strains to be mixed. Hitler and some of the scientists of his day also claimed that a person's blood controlled his or her personality; one kind of blood would make a person criminal, or cruel, or unintelligent. Another kind of blood made a person noble and pure. And, according to Hitler, the highest type was the Aryan blood of the German race.
Yep he mentioned inferiority in Mein Kampf...but it was based on prejudice.
Anti-Semitism as a tool
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Reach!
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