As we know, Nazism is an ideology that kind of marked history because of the importance it will have later in the development of World War II. It was a nineteenth-century idealism, which ideological roots arose from Romanticism. Such ideas, supported by the Ariosophical German Order and the Thule Society much influenced Adolf Hitler’s world-view.
According to Mein Kampf (Hitler’s book), Hitler developed his political theories by carefully observing the policies of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a natural-born citizen of the Empire, and believed that ethnic and linguistic diversity weakened it. In addition, he saw democracy as a destabilizing force, because it placed power in the hands of ethnic minorities, who had incentives to weaken and destabilize the Empire.
National Socialism classically says that a nation is the highest creation of a race. Therefore, large nations are said to be the creation of great races. And the weakest nations are said to be those from "impure" or "mongrel" races, because they have divided, quarrelling, and therefore weak cultures. The Nazis theory postulates the Aryan race to be superior over other ones, especially Jews and some Slavic people.
The Nazi justification was heavily invested in the militarist belief that great nations grow from military power. Hitler wanted to recover the militaristic nationalist that characterized the previous era. After Austria and Germany's defeat of World War I, many Germans still had heartfelt ties to the goal of creating a greater Germany, and thought that the use of military force to achieve it was necessary.
Hitler extended his rationalizations into religious doctrine, claiming that those who agreed with and taught his "truths," were "true" or "master" religions, because they would "create mastery" by avoiding comforting lies. Those that preach love and tolerance, "in contravention to the facts," were said to be "slave" or "false" religions. The man who recognizes these "truths," Hitler continued, was said to be a "natural leader," and those who deny it were said to be "natural slaves." "Slaves," especially intelligent ones, he claimed were always attempting to hinder masters by promoting false religious and political doctrines.
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