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Nazi racial theorists questioned the amount of Nordic-Aryan blood Italians had [citation needed]. Hitler himself viewed northern Italians as more Aryan than southern Italians. [71] The Nazis viewed the downfall of the Roman Empire as being caused by racial intermixing, claiming that Italians were a hybrid of races, including black African races.
During his life in Vienna between 1907 and 1913, Hitler was exposed to racist rhetoric. [8] Populists such as mayor Karl Lueger exploited the city's prevalent anti-Semitic sentiment, blamed Jews "for simply anything and everything", [9] [c] and also espoused German nationalist notions for political benefit.
Nazism was strongly influenced by the Freikorps paramilitary groups that emerged after Germany's defeat in World War I, from which came the party's underlying "cult of violence". [9] It subscribed to pseudo-scientific theories of a racial hierarchy, [10] identifying ethnic Germans as part of what the Nazis regarded as an Aryan or Nordic master ...
The bio-geo-political nature of Nazi Weltanschauung was the core ideological force that instigated Nazi Germany to launch its violent project in pursuit of a new global order. This scheme aimed to dissolve the contradictions between the Nazi conceptualizations of "race" and "space" through the creation of a Germanic Lebensraum and achievement ...
One of the most revealing booklets published and distributed by this sub-section of the SS-Hauptamt was the Lehrplan für die weltanschauliche Erziehung in der SS und Polizei (Worldview Training Curriculum for the SS and Police), a training manual which contained thirty-four lessons on a wide array of topics like the organizational structure ...
The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Ideology and Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-02175-4. Kershaw, Ian (25 October 2001). Hitler 1889–1936: Hubris. Penguin Books Limited. ISBN 978-0-14-192579-0. Welch, David (1993). The Third Reich: Politics and Propaganda. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-93014-4.
The Nazis held Spengler as an intellectual precursor but he was ostracized after 1933 for his pessimism about Germany and Europe's future, and his refusal to support Nazi ideas of racial superiority. Lothrop Stoddard (1883–1950), American political theorist, historian, eugenicist, and anti-immigration advocate who wrote a number of prominent ...
The Nazi propaganda pamphlet depicted Russians, Jews and various inhabitants of Eastern Europe as "subhumans". [71] [72] The Nazis issued the Polish decrees on 8 March 1940 which regulated the working and living conditions of Polish laborers (Zivilarbeiter) used during World War II in Germany. The decrees set out that any Pole "who has sexual ...