A mixture of rationalism, atheism, occultism, Classicism, Darwinism, neo-paganism, Nietzscheanism, racism, high-tech instrumental rationality, scientism, Christian anti-semitism and social conservatism, Zionism, and new-ageism (vegetarianism, animal rights, green design).
Did I leave anything out?
Explanation:
Atheism: Bormann
Rationalism, Classicism, Darwinism: Hitler
Neo-paganism, new-ageism: Himmler
Zionism: Eichmann's original cooperation with the Jews to assist in their emigration (to Palestine, Madagascar).
2007-09-19 23:45:35 · 4 answers · asked by 2kool4u 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Hello Bestonne--
A few brief replies in point form:
Hitler's approach to Christianity was contradictory: see e.g. Dawkins, The God Illusion on this.
Hitler as Classicist: See Potts, Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics--Hitler had a deep admiration for ancient Greece and Rome.
Darwinism: the notion of the survival of the fittest was crucial to Hitler's thought.
Central to Nietzsche's thought was opposition to compassion; also to feminism, democracy and socialism which Nietzsche thought all derived from Christian notions of equality. Hitler shared these ideas, though issues of influence may be debated.
High-tech instrumental rationality: e.g. Speer the technocrat.
Scientism: human experiments; eugenics; high-tech weaponry; subordination of human beings to the concerns of science, etc.
Zionism: the Nazis originally wanted to banish the Jews to e.g. Madagascar or Palestine. Therefore it's technically correct to describe them as Zionists, at least prior to the "final solution" idea.
2007-09-20 10:19:28 · update #1
"rationalism,"
No, it was a very irrational belief system.
"atheism,"
Hitler was a Christian against atheism so I'd say no.
"occultism,"
Probably not much. A few Nazis dabbled in it but it wasn't a defining feature of the movement.
"Classicism,"
It was an ultra-right wing movement so admiration of the past is to be expected.
"Darwinism,"
No, Hitler's ideas about racial purity came from elsewhere (i.e. the blood line idea of the bible) and are directly contradicted by evolutionary theory anyway.
"neo-paganism,"
Nazis were known to attack paganism.
"Nietzscheanism,"
No, Nietzsche was actually against anti-semitism and nationalism and was an atheist, he would have opposed the Nazis had he been alive then, his sister did support the Nazis which is where that idea came from. Hitler's idea that Germans were superior to others were thought of in different terms to Nietzsche's superman concept.
"racism,"
Yes.
"high-tech instrumental rationality,"
Not sure what you mean. Spear didn't seem to be one of the prototypical Nazis. But anyway, the Nazis were pragmatists when it came to technology preferring to use it where it allows them to kill more efficiently, there didn't really seem to be an ideological reason other than that though.
"scientism,"
No, they were very anti-science, not worshipping it. The idea that they got their ideas from Darwin is wrong, Hitler didn't even seem to know how Darwin was nor did he seem to understand evolution (his justification of Nazi supermen came from the bible). The crap that Mengeler, et. al. were doing is generally not recognised as science today, nor was it very scientific even back then.
"Christian anti-semitism"
Hitler was a Christian and hated Jews, no more need be said.
"and social conservatism,"
Yeah, they put prayer into schools and did other things that conservatives tend to want to do.
"Zionism,"
Probably not, they wanted to the Jews dead, not just relocated and Nazi influence in Palestine caused quite a bit of trouble when Israel was created.
"and new-ageism (vegetarianism, animal rights, green design)."
Some people who were Nazis were into that but it wasn't a defining feature.
2007-09-20 00:20:15 · answer #1 · answered by bestonnet_00 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure did.
Adolph was a regular guy, some talent as an artist and architecht and could have designed some pretty ordinary small town buildings, but, the local architecht firms were all jewish racists who employed exclusively Jews leaving Adolf with no career path and scratching around for a few schillings.
WW1 shaped his life, he won the Iron Cros for bravery, running messages to the front line from HQ and became a Corporal. Following the War where he felt the Jewish Americans had crushed his German comrades he realised most germans greed with him and he built his political party the NAZIs aLeft wing workers party initially which went right wing, like the UK New Labour in many ways but smarter and better led, and he followed policies which got even with the jews and nearly cleared jews from western Europe before the Jewish Financed American Invasion of 1944.
Hitler was none of the things you talk of, he was an ordinary fairly small, probably impotent guy the sort you kick sand in the face of to impress your girl, and despite everything he will be seen as the dominant politician of the 20th century when the History books are written from a 23rd century perspective. Moral ont kick the little guy, or he might put your entre family and all your friends in a gas chamber.
2007-09-19 23:48:57 · answer #2 · answered by Alan S 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
hey alan S ... are you aware that Hitler won an Iron Cross because of the reccommendation of a Jewish Army commander ????
and as for painting .. hitler was OK .. no master but JUST ok ..
2007-09-20 00:17:37 · answer #3 · answered by ll_jenny_ll here AND I'M BAC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep
2007-09-19 23:51:15 · answer #4 · answered by Portia 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋