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I'm no expert on history, but this is where Nazi ideology seems contradict itself for me: * They claimed that all development in Russia was led by people of
by b0rsuk 9y ago
I'm no expert on history, but this is where Nazi ideology seems contradict itself for me:
* They claimed that all development in Russia was led by people of German (Aryan) origin,
* Yet they focused their efforts on exterminating the social elite first, to make the society of Untermensh (slave race) fall faster.
Could someone chime in?
- olavk 9y agoI don't see the contradiction. They didn't exterminate people of German descent in the conquered territories, rather they were supposed to become the new elite.
- b0rsuk 9y agoFocusing on exterminating of social elite (doctors, lawyers, famous artists, officers, writers, journalists...) is admitting there was an elite. How can a slave race have people creating culture and order?
- olavk 9y agoYou cant challenge Nazi racial ideology as if it was a logically consistent system. It was pretty opportunistic. For example Slavs are technically Aryan (given the theory behind the concept of an Aryan race), but nevertheless the Nazis considered them subhumans because it justified the lebensraum politics. On the other hand, the Japanese was elevated to "honorable Aryans" when they became allies.