Racial Theories&Nazi State
The Nazi State of the Third Reich is clearly defined by racial theory put into practice. One reading Burleigh and Wipperman’s book; The Racial State, learns of these different racial theories and how they are implemented under Adolf Hitler in the Third Reich. As one learns when reading The Racial State, Adolf Hitler’s eugenic and racial-hygienic theories were not original. Theorists long before his time wrote of the same racist theories. Hitler never mentions any of these theorists in his work, but one can see when reading The Racial State, that the horrific acts that occurred during the Third Reich reflected the ideas of these theorists. Theorist Alfred Grotjahn’s believed that in order to achieve social hygiene, those who did not fit the social criteria of the state, should be isolated that in order to achieve social hygiene. Those that did not fit the social criteria of the state should be isolated and sterilized to eventually destroy these races. These people included, the insane, the work shy, alcoholics, those carrying diseases and accident victims. Zoologist Ernst Haekel shares this view with his theory that the ‘central races’ were superior and in order to maintain their superiority, those who were sick and not p
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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