Questions tagged [nazism]
Nazism, from German Nazi, as abbreviation of National Sozialismus, is a totalitarian ideology of the German NSDAP party, led by Adolf Hitler. The consequence of adopting this ideology was the World War II and the Holocaust.
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What historical reasons did the Nazis give for hating the Jews? How did they identify non-practicing Jews?
What historical or cultural reasons did the Nazis give for hating the Jews? Did they ever accurately and precisely identify non-practicing Jews?
I asked Jewish culture differences singled out by ...
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Did the Nazis identify as being Fascists? How exactly did they view themselves?
In the 1920s, Italy established the National Fascist Party (Italian: Partito Nazionale Fascista, PNF ) Hitler adopted much from his Italian allies including their fascist ideals. Even the infamous ...
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What was Nazi Germany's end goal?
This is something I've always wondered but couldn't imagine what the answer could be and haven't found much material elsewhere. Nazi Germany, paired with Italy and Japan, was waging war on the world ...
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Antisemitism in Nazi Germany [closed]
I was wondering about this for quite a while:
Antisemitism is something that is quite unbelievable for us nowadays, so: on what was this antisemitism actually based? I also know that there has always ...
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Did Adolf Hitler ever address the fact that his own appearance was almost an exact opposite of what he considered the ideal Aryan appearance?
Hitler's ideal Aryan / Nordic appearance was: tall, blond, blue eyed, broad shouldered.
Hitler's own appearance was: short, dark haired, brown eyed, slight and slumpy shoulders.
And most of the Nazi ...
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When and how did the term "Nazi" start replacing the term "Germans" in the context of WW2?
Have been browsing through newspapers from September 1939 and hardly any of them mention the term Nazi.
Instead, the overwhelming majority of them use the term Germans.
Clearly, today in most ...
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What are the counterarguments to calling German nazism a right-wing movement? [closed]
I notice that the media routinely refer to Hitler's politics as "extreme right-wing". "extreme right-wing" and "neo-nazi" have become practically a synonym.
Is this accurate?
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Nazism and Jewish persecution awareness during the WW2 years [closed]
I've always wondered how is it possible that an entire nation and beyond (Germany) wasn't aware of the Jewish persecution during the WW2 years or, if they were, that they did nothing to stop it.
Were ...
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What was Hitler's attitude towards the Aryans of India?
Considering some of the questions/questioners that have cropped up recently on this site, what was the Nazi attitude towards India and specifically the Aryans of India? Did Hitler consider them to be ...
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How did attitudes of German citizens toward Hitler and the Nazi Party change over the course of the pre-war and the post-war periods?
The March 1933 federal election was the final democratic election before WWII – in which the Nazi party received 43.91% of the vote.
I'm curious how quickly the attitudes of ordinary German citizens ...
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Did the Nazis regard chemical warfare as inhumane and "Jewish"?
I sometimes encounter accounts that the main reason why chemical weapons were not used in WWII was because initially they were invented by a Jew Fritz Haber, and as such Hitler expressed opinion that ...
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What did the Nazis do with proselytes to Judaism?
The Nazis categorised people on racial grounds. If someone had sufficient Jewish ancestry, they were dead. Unlike, say, Stalin's purges, it didn't matter what their opinions were: if you totally ...
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How did the Nazis justify the differences in the way they treated Jews v. POWs? [closed]
I was reading an autobiographical account of an Army Air Corps POW. He was on a train that made a stop at Dachau to unhook several box cars containing Jews. Although he and his fellow POWs feared for ...
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During the WWII, did the German Luftwaffe ever have mixed units of Bf-109s and Me-262s, and if so, which units and/or which airfields?
I have much information regarding the contemporary piston-engined Bf-109 units, as wells as the more advanced Me-262 units. However, I am wondering if any of these planes served together in the same ...
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What did Hitler say in Mein Kampf about the possibility of other nations allying against Germany in response to her aggression?
In Mein Kampf as well as in Zweites Buch, Adolf Hitler advocates the idea of securing Lebensraum ("living space") at the expense of other nations in wars of aggression. His substantiation, as far as I ...
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