HIST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Orthodox Judaism, Euphemism, Final Solution
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The rise of the nazi power, and the ideas associated with this party. Remember: we said hitler spent some time in jail, after the failed coup, where he wrote a book, called mein kampf (my struggle). In it, he revealed how influenced he was by the doctrine of social darwinism-- sweeping around the world. Idea of darwinism that swept world, a survival of fittest nation . In his book, he mentions anschluss, as a union because after the fixing of borders of versailles, a lot of germans were out of the borders now . Anschluss, what people thought he meant, was a revision of those borders, but of course he wanted more than that . Additional living space, especially in east of germany. He regarded the agriculturally fertile lands on east of germany as inhabited by racially inferior people that could easily be conquered .
