9th Class Social Science Nazism & the Rise of Hitler Question Bank Short Answer Type Questions - Nazism and the Rise of Hitler

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    What are the peculiar features of Nazi thinking?

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    (a) Nazi ideology believed there was no equality between people but only a racial hierarchy.  In this hierarchy the German Aryans were at the top and the Jews at the lowest rung. (b) These racist beliefs were borrowed from thinkers like Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer. These thinkers expounded the concept of evolution and natural selection and also the idea of survival of the fittest. (c) Their ideas were taken by the Nazis to justify imperial rule over the conquered people.         (d) They also believed in the geo-political concept of Lebensraum or living space. They believed that new territories should be acquired for Germans to senile which could make Germany a powerful nation to reckon with.


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