How did the Nazis use common ideas about race in their platform & how did that contribute to the holocaus
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](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F9186bd9d-409c-44be-bc1d-33b64e365fdc%2Fc24a2c2b-60e8-4676-8e0e-1001374d5ce9%2Fnblalc9_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
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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