GRMN 2301: Inside Nazi Germany EXAM 1 Questions And Answers 100% Pass.
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GRMN 2301: Inside Nazi Germany EXAM 1
Questions And Answers 100% Pass.
What are the major tenets of Nazi thought? (also need to define them) - answer1. Anti-
Semitism
2. Lebensraum
3. Social Darwinism
4. Leadership Principle
5. Racial Hygiene
6. Individualism
Anti-Semitism - answer1. Relig...
Anti-Semitism - answer✔1. Religious/Old Christian Anti-Semitism: blamed Jews for the death
of Jesus so wanted to hate them but also wanted to keep them around in case a Jesus situation
happened again; based on FAITH (Jews were able to convert to Christianity and then they were
ok)
2. Modern Anti-Semitism: now based on race; it seemed as though Jews were gaining = rights
under the law, but it was actually a ploy to get them associated with the Enlightenment: laws did
not allow them in typical professions, they now had to work in more modern professions, and
this is part of what got them associated with modernism; Jews started to get blamed for the
struggles of modernity and rationalization
Lebensruam - answer✔Germans thought they were justified in invading and colonizing Eastern
Europe because they were superior to Eastern Europeans (to them, this was a scientific
justification)
the belief that Germany and the Germans needed "living space" in Eastern Europe; wanted to
conquer Eastern Europe
Social Darwinism - answer✔the strongest and most ruthless survive; "kill or be killed" mindset;
life is the struggle for survival
Nazism - answer✔aimed for the creation of a new racial German community under the
leadership of one man
(must be pure; cleansed; racial hygiene)
Leadership Principle - answer✔under one man; believed that democracy was part of the reason
for all the problems and people wanted one single person to be making all the decisions
Racial Hygiene - answer✔allowing only the fittest and strongest to reproduce; killing
physically/mentally disabled/ill or leaving them untreated so only the fittest would survive
essentially weeding out the weak to create the strongest race possible
Individualism - answer✔the best should rise above the rest through struggle and should then use
their geniusness to benefit the rest of society
*Explain the Rise of the Nazi Movement - answer✔-Europe 1803: "Germany" was just an idea;
it did not exist until the late 19th century
-1871: forms Germany and Austria-Hungary Empires
Loss of WWI
-loss of territory (1919) due to Treaty of Versailles
-End of WWI: changed what people thought of war; what it meant to be human (End of WWI led
to: post war loss of German Territory, mechanized warfare, Nationalism, Revolutionary
moments in art and literature)
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