408. The Nazis in Power: Hitler's Dream (Part 5)
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The Nazi Vision of German People and Ideological Origins
The Nazi vision of the German people is deeply rooted in the idea of living in harmony with a sense of law based on survival of the fittest. The essentialist idea of race by the Nazis is that one's racial makeup is unchanging, and the mission is to reclaim that racial inheritance. This ideology stems from the late 19th-century intellectual climate influenced by Darwin's ideas on struggle, competition, and survival of the fittest. Hitler and the Nazis perceive themselves as following scientific racism, which is founded on the concept of struggle. The documentary 'Alice Leben is camp' portrays life as a constant struggle where only the strongest can survive, framing it as essential for the perfection of all living things. The Nazis see themselves and the German people as apex mammals, facing a sense of self-pity and triumphalism due to the perceived threat to the German race, which explains the urgency of their mission framed in biological terms.
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