Nazi Ideology

Nazi Ideology

Nazism was never a coherent or uniform ideology » (Griffin). Judjment

on the true nature of Nazi ideology is always diffuclt to make and

easy to change, for this reason one can not affirm one of the above

statements to be true, nor can one say that one of them is wrong, they

are both right in one sense, wrong in another, all depending from

which angle one looks at them. Nazi ideology was born out of the need

to attract the widest range of people from the widest range of

backrounds thus creating a diverse and contradicting ideology as the

25 points prove. At the same time Hitler created an ideology that he

not only believed in but that also proved capable of achieving his

personal ambitions. One of the difficulties in analysing Nazi ideology

is distinguishing between real ideas that influenced political and

economic theory and the propaganda distributed to the public. Many

historians think of Nazi ideology as purely Fascist even as the model

of Fascism while others tend to suggest that Nazism went a step

further than Fascism : « [they] believed that the decadence was not

only political and cultural, but biological and racial ».

One could argue that Nazi ideology was an« essentiely new, racist &

destructive philosophy ». One of the aspects of Nazi ideology which

mark it as « new » is the presence of «ecstatic invocations of the

spirit of modern technological warfare ». The Nazi military tradition

was not a relic of the past, it was modern and its style was purely

and soely Nazi. It also called for industrialisation and advance in

science: two features of a society wishing to modernise itself. Nazi

ideology was most certainly racist, in it’s 25 points, the rights of

Jews and other