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How did the Nazis use common ideas about race in their platform & how did that contribute to the holocaus

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How did the Nazis use common ideas about race in their platform & how did that contribute to the holocaust?
Peoples. Immigration Policies restricted Black, Chinese and Jewish immigrants. Canadians of Japanese descent were rounded up and interned during World War Two. Labour Legislation dictated who could and couldn't work for whom, and who could do what kind of work. Education was often segregated or restricted. Non-whites could not belong to certain professions. The assumptions of race theory permeated science, art and literature. It shaped Canadian demography, history and national self-image. Racism and Fascism Racism was not restricted to the colonies or to Europe's new relationship with America, Africa and Asia. "A succession of writers--like Count de Gobineau, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, C.H. Pearson, Madison Grant and Adolf Hitler--began to emphasize the barely perceptible racial differences within the European community itself." (Curtin, 1971, p 3) As George Mosse points out in Towards the Final Solution, the Nazi holocaust was not an "aberration of European thought or...scattered moments of madness." It was the extreme, but logical outcome of a long history of the development of European ideas on race. Mosse cites the invention of "the Jewish nose" in 1711 as one of the signposts of the racialization of the Jews in Europe. Racism transformed the Jewish people from a religious to a racial minority, attributing them with distinct physical characteristics. When the Jews had been expelled from Spain in the 15th century it was a cruel act against a religious minority who refused to convert to the Christian faith. But there was no question of conversion in Nazi Germany. Eugenics had become state policy. The Jews were now considered a biological threat to the Aryan race. And the rules of racial ancestry developed in the American colonies three hundred years before meant that anyone with a drop of "Jewish blood," embodied that threat. No matter what their religious persuasion, they faced extermination -- the final solution
Transcribed Image Text:Peoples. Immigration Policies restricted Black, Chinese and Jewish immigrants. Canadians of Japanese descent were rounded up and interned during World War Two. Labour Legislation dictated who could and couldn't work for whom, and who could do what kind of work. Education was often segregated or restricted. Non-whites could not belong to certain professions. The assumptions of race theory permeated science, art and literature. It shaped Canadian demography, history and national self-image. Racism and Fascism Racism was not restricted to the colonies or to Europe's new relationship with America, Africa and Asia. "A succession of writers--like Count de Gobineau, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, C.H. Pearson, Madison Grant and Adolf Hitler--began to emphasize the barely perceptible racial differences within the European community itself." (Curtin, 1971, p 3) As George Mosse points out in Towards the Final Solution, the Nazi holocaust was not an "aberration of European thought or...scattered moments of madness." It was the extreme, but logical outcome of a long history of the development of European ideas on race. Mosse cites the invention of "the Jewish nose" in 1711 as one of the signposts of the racialization of the Jews in Europe. Racism transformed the Jewish people from a religious to a racial minority, attributing them with distinct physical characteristics. When the Jews had been expelled from Spain in the 15th century it was a cruel act against a religious minority who refused to convert to the Christian faith. But there was no question of conversion in Nazi Germany. Eugenics had become state policy. The Jews were now considered a biological threat to the Aryan race. And the rules of racial ancestry developed in the American colonies three hundred years before meant that anyone with a drop of "Jewish blood," embodied that threat. No matter what their religious persuasion, they faced extermination -- the final solution
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