How did the Nazis affect the way we live today?

Question

Since the Nazis were into many fields of interests, how do you think the Nazis influenced the the way we live and think today?

Answer 1

Apart from all the bad things the Nazis did, there were some things which they did and which affect us today which could be seen in a more positive light.

For example, their anti-smoking campaign:

"Germany had the world's strongest antismoking movement in the 1930s and early 1940s, encompassing bans on smoking in public spaces, bans on advertising, restrictions on tobacco rations for women, and the world's most refined tobacco epidemiology, linking tobacco use with the already evident epidemic of lung cancer."

Answer 2

The Nazi s left behind the legacy of the 'perfect' villain. Whenever anyone feels the need to level a charge of hate against a person or a group it is 'safe' to call them a Nazi or to compare them to Adolf Hitler and no one will object although 85 % of the population has no clue to the nature of Nazism or the history thereof.....

In many ways the impact of the Nazi s has been negative; a legacy of hate & violence. But in an odd sense the depravity of the Nazi s cured Germany of its Military Lust and for over sixty years Germany has steered a course for peace and civil equality... And by example of their cruelty & hate the Nazi s serve as a warning as to what not to do.....

So a mixed legacy - - - Peace in Europe, a United Europe mostly which is ironic because that was one of Hitler's goals, an example of depravity, an all purpose villain useful whenever a world leader wants to invade another country and can find ways to comare them to the Nazis (what is Sadaam have shaved off his mustache!)......


Peace.. /// ------O . u . O -------- \\\ ...............................ui

Answer 3

The Nazis left a legacy of death, destruction, violence, hatred and fear - the Nazis showed us what the world would be like, what the government would be like if we the people allowed any government to use violence against another people and comitted crimes of such enormity to be against everything that human decency stands for.

I think the biggest legacy that the Nazis left the world was in the field of science and medicine, and the humanities. The Nazi euthanasia program, gas chambers and medical experiments shocked the world about how cruel one person could be to another in the Nazi plan for a master race.

We have continued to carry the fears of the Nazi master race plan into science. Our fears have helped us to establish safeguards and develop a new field of ethical behaviour in medicine so as not to repeat the horrors of the Nazi era. We can see a very good example with the controversy of stem cell research.

If you look at the United Nations charter, it came about at the end of the second world war - and the aim of the world to prevent another war on the scale of the Nazi occupation. In the U.N charter there are also clauses to war crimes and crimes against humanity - new to International law but introduced to hold soldiers and governments accountable for acts of genocide committed. The most recent example - Rwanda and also Bosnia and now criticism of Burma / Myanamar.

Another example - the word genocide coined after the Nazi era to define the mass murder and deliberate conspiracy of one group to murder and exclude another group on the basis of their identity, their age, their race, religion, culture, political beliefs, sex etc.

In our own countries, governments have put in place laws to prevent racial and religious persecution, laws to prevent the incitement of violence and hate, to reject and outcast those groups in society that preach hate and violence - to make hate detestable and the use of violence and vilification against the principles of human decency.

Another example is that the way we look at immigration. After World War 2 and the holocaust, the world had to open its eyes to the discrimination that was not just occuring in Europe and Germany by the Nazis, but within our own societies. Countries began to adopt much more flexible immigration laws which would allow greater numbers of refugees to settle from Europe regardless of their jewish background. We can see policies of non-discrimination continue in immigration policies today.

The Nazis came to symbolise everything that human decency and kindness detests to the extent that the Nazis and Hitler are compared with Satan, the anti-christ and evil on earth.

May we never forget man's inhumanity to man.

Answer 4

a. Autobahns (expressways).

b. Volkswagen car.

c. Anti-tobacco campaigns and other anti-cancer campaigns.

"Anti-tobacco campaigns, whole grain breads, breast self examination and control of carcinogens in the workplace are normal approaches to preventing or controlling cancer today, but, according to a Penn State historian of science, in the 1930s and 1940s, it was actually Nazi Germany that pioneered many such practices."

Answer 5

A) Rocket technology
B) Jet planes.
C) Improvement over our own warfare and our own Air Force, Navy and Submarines. Improvements in Radar, radio transmissions. It goes on and on with technologies. Warfare always does this to a modern society.

Answer 6

jets missiles of all types warfare blitz style infrared detection lots of things to do with warfare