Nazi Ideology

When Hitler was trying to come into power, Germany was facing many problems. Their economy was awful, and something needed to be done to fix it. Also, Germany was having problems because of the Treaty of Versailles. They lost land they thought that they needed, and their government was not being run in a way that all Germans considered correct.

The Nazis came up with ideas for all of Germany's problems. First, they wanted to do away with the Treaty of Versailles so that all of the German-speaking lands could unite as one. After that, they wanted to abolish the Democratic government and establish a Fuhrer, or a single authoritarian state. Also, the Nazis were strong believers in Social Darwinism. They thought that the Aryan race was the perfect race, and that the Jewish people were harming their vision of a perfect world.

These ideas were not necessarily new. Some of the ideas were from the Kaiser era. WHen the Kaiser was in power, Germany was strong. Germany only had one person in power for the most part, and all of the areas of Europe that spoke German were united. Other ideas were fiarly new, but had still been thought of by people for a long time. This included the belief in Social Darwinism.

The Nazis ideas were ideas that could be embraced by Germans. The idea of change caused excitement for many Germans.

However, Jewish people would not agree with these ideas. They were left out of what was seen as the future greatness of Germany.