Nazism

Many young unemployed men joined Hitler's Nazi movement. They became uniformed thugs who beat up his political opponents . They wore the Nazi symbol of swastika as a band.

This Ideology based on racism, nationalism, and the supremacy of the state over the individual, was led by Adolf Hitler from 1921 to 1945.

Ideology

This Ideology based on racism, nationalism, and the supremacy of the state over the individual, was led by Adolf Hitler from 1921 to 1945.According to Hitler, the development of this political was based on policies of the Austro- Hungarian Empire. Nazi ideas were heavily invested in the militarist belief that great nations grow from military power.
Hitlers theory also claimed that Aryan race is superior to any other race and that "Great Nations" were creations of races as superior as the Aryan.
The weakest nations, Hitler said were those of impure or mongrel races, because they have divided, quarreling, and therefore weak cultures. Worst of all were seen to be the parasitic Untermensch (Subhumans), mainly Jews, but also Gypsies, homosexuals, disabled and so called anti-socials, all of whom were considered lebensunwertes Leben (Lifeunworthy Life) due to their perceived deficiency and inferiority.According to Nazism, it is an obvious mistake to permit or encourage multilingualism and multiculturalism within a nation. Fundamental to the Nazi goal was the unification of all German-speaking peoples, "unjustly" divided into different Nation States. Hitler claimed that nations that could not defend their territory did not deserve it.

Nazi economy

Nazi economic practice concerned itself with immediate domestic issues and separately with ideological conceptions of international economics.

Domestic economic policy was narrowly concerned with three major goals:

• Elimination of unemployment
• Elimination of hyperinflation
• Expansion of production of consumer goods to improve middle- and lower-class living standards.

All of these policy goals were intended to address the perceived shortcomings of the Weimar Republic and to solidify domestic support for the party. In this, the party was very successful. Between 1933 and 1936 the German GNP increased by an average annual rate of 9.5 percent, and the rate for industry alone rose by 17.2 percent.

Success of Nazism

An important question about National Socialism is that of which factors promoted its success, not only in Germany, but also in other European countries (in the 1930s and early 1940s Nazi-type movements could be found in Sweden, Britain, Italy, Spain and even in the US) in the twenties and thirties of the last century? These factors may have included:

• Economic devastation all over Europe after WWI
• Lack of orientation of many people after the breakdown of monarchy in many European countries.
• A perception that there was a disproportionate number of Jews in the German bourgeoisie (or upper class).
• Perceived Jewish involvement in WWI of war profiteering
• Appeal of socialism or socialist rhetoric to the German working class
• Humiliation of Germany at the Treaty of Versailles
• Rejection of Communism (particularly redistribution of wealth ) and the perception that socialism and Communism were Jewish-inspired and Jewish -led movements; hence the Nazi use of the term Judeo-Bolshevik
• Hatred of the Jews

"Nazi economic policy" School history. 2009. 19 October 2008.

"Nazism" History. 2009. 19 October 2008.