Nazi Ideology

What is Nazi?
- A member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party

KEY ELEMENTS
Fascism
Darwinism
Anti-Bolshevism

Fascism
- an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.


The fascists rose to power in Italy under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. Adolf Hitler watched Mussolini’s rise, to power with respect, and he used many of the same strategies himself. Hitler’s rise was assisted by the chaos of the world depression. Hitler became popular in part because he was able to end the depression in Germany. He did this by creating massive public projects, like road systems, and by spending government money on the military industrial production of tanks, airplanes, and other goods. Productivity increased dramatically, unemployment decreased, and the economic crisis seemed solved. This bolstered the public’s opinion of Hitler. He mastered the use of radio, parades, and publicity even more effectively than Mussolini, creating a propaganda machine to raise support for the Nazis.

Darwinism
- Social Darwinism is the belief that all personal and social problems were inherited. The movement was named for Charles Darwin, a naturalist who theorized that organisms develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.

Adolf Hitler’s racial theories were based on social Darwinism. “The stronger has to rule and must not mate with the weaker,” Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf. “Only the born weakling can consider this cruel.”

Anti-Bolshevism
-Also known as anti-communism, organized anti-communism developed in reaction to the rise of communism, especially after the 1917 October Revolution in Russia and reaching global dimensions during the Cold War.

“In the years 1913 and 1914 I expressed my opinion for the first time in various circles, some of which are now members of the National Socialist Movement, that the problem of how the future of the German nation can be secured is the problem of how Marxism can be exterminated.” Said hitler.

Bolshevization of Germany, that is to say, the extermination of the patriotic and national German intellectuals, thus making it possible to force German Labour to bear the yoke of international Jewish finance—that is only the overture to the movement for expanding Jewish power on a wider scale and finally subjugating the world to its rule.


HOW DID NAZI IDEOLOGY LEAD TO THE RISE OF HITLER?
The Nazi Party was founded as the pan-German nationalist and antisemitic german workers party in January 1919. By the early 1920s, Adolf Hitler had become its leader and assumed control of the organisation, now renamed the National Socialist German Workers’ Party in a bid to broaden its appeal.
Adolf Hitler came into a broken and massively in debt county promising "change". He promised to take the lower class Germans to new heights and bring riches to the war torn country.
He didnt like the idea of socialism but because the german supports it, he named it the national socialist german workers party.
he then gained support and rose in Germany.

Done by: Danial