Adolf Hitler's Influence And Race Theorists

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Also, Hitler was heavily influenced by fellow Austrian, Karl Lueger. Lueger was considered to be a nationalist Christian-Socialist and anti-Semitic. Under Lueger’s influence and race theorists, Lanz von Liebenfels, Hitler first developed the radical anti-Semitism and racial mythology that were to remain essential to his own and beliefs and ideology and that of the Nazi party (Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004). Anti-Semitism is hatred towards Jews for no apparent reason and it also includes stereotyped views about Jews. Adolf Hitler discusses his anti-Semitic views and his belief that Germans were the superior race in his book, Mein Kampf. In 1933, Hitler and the Nazi’s began to practice their racial ideology. They believed that the Germans

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