Was Nazism An Ideology Essay Research Paper — страница 3

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children together in one state.? To descirbe Hitler?s thinking as an ideology is flattery. It lacked coherence and was intellectually superficial and simplistic. It wasn?t even a rational system of thought. It was merely a collection of ideas not cleaverly pieced together. Although the combination was unique, it was not in any positive sense origional. Every aspect of Hitler?s thinking was to be found in the nationalist and racist writings of the 19th century. His nationalism was generated in Germany in the years between Prussia?s struggle against Napolian and the unification of 1871. His idea of an all German Reich was a simple repition of the demands for the ?Greater Germany? made by those German nationalists who criticised Bismarck?s limited unification. Even the imperialism

of Lebensraum had already found expression in the programme of ?Germanisation? supported by those writers who saw the German racer as some how superior. This growing support for the Volk had also gone hand in hand with the development of racist ideas, and in particular of anti-Semitism. Thus, even before Hitler and other leading Nazis were born, the core of what would become Nazism was already current in political circles.