Social Darwinism In Nazi Germany

With Hitler’s rise to power as Chancellor and the progression of Nazi Germany, there lied theories and concepts that guided policies, propaganda, and murder. Hitler, as well as his disciples, educated themselves with these powerful theories and decided to execute them in a way no party had ever dreamed of. These theories derived from racial science and the ideology that a person’s race completely defined their character. One cannot make sense of the Nazi’s tactics without comprehending the abstract foundation that led to the plan of creating a racially purified society in the first place. Therefore, the extreme measures the Nazi regime went to in order to the wipe the existence of any other race besides their own was not strictly based on racism,

This is where racial theories included the idea of eugenics or the improvement of the genetic quality of a human population. With a massive death of the “unfit” comes a balance and progress. Furthermore, the Nazis the allegation that the mixture of unsuitable races leads to the destruction to the greatest race of all: Aryan. This also involves distinguishing between positive and negative eugenics. The idea behind Nazism was based solely on both. Positive eugenics was preserving good hereditary characteristics, whereas negative eugenics was the concept of weakening the shunned social groups by restraining their reproduction. In other words, the Nazi regime justified the mass killings of these counter groups as a means of science or cleansing it through eugenic means. Nazi objectives also centered on the idea of Ancestral Proof. It was a condition under the regime and it was later incorporated in the Nuremberg Laws based off the proof of how much Jewish blood a citizen had. Its main objective was to preserve German blood and purity. Under their power, Nazis enforced the idea of ancestral proof on a massive scale with 2,000 regulations on the basis of racial status. Finally, racial eugenic reasoning permitted the Nazi regime to authorize, support, and implement a strategy of slaughtering every race or group that was not Aryan on the