Why is the Nazi party significant?

Answer 1

Answer: The significance of the Nazi party lies in their belief that mankind should be divided into various classes, namely (a) a master (leader) race; (b) slave races and (c) sub human races. Hitler(who personified the Nazi party) believed that a nation was the highest creation of a "race", and "great nations" were the creation of homogeneous populations of "great races" working together. These nations developed cultures that naturally grew from "races" with "natural good health, and aggressive, intelligent, courageous traits". The "weakest nations", Hitler said, were those of "impure" or "mongrel races", because they had divided, and therefore were weak cultures. Worst of all were seen to be the parasitic "sub humans", mainly Jews, but also Gypsies and Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, the disabled and so-called anti-socials, all of whom were considered as "life-unworthy life" owing to their perceived deficiency and inferiority, as well as their wandering, nationless invasions ("the International Jew"). According to Nazism, it is an obvious mistake to permit or encourage plurality within a nation. Fundamental to the Nazi goal was the unification of all German-speaking peoples, "unjustly" divided into different Nation States. Hitler claimed that nations that could not defend their territory did not deserve it. He thought "slave races", like the Slavic peoples, to be less worthy to exist than "leader races". In particular, if a master race should require room to live, he thought such a race should have the right to displace the inferior indigenous races.