eved that Jews were backstabbers and couldn’t be trusted. He also believed that he Jews were responsible for the negative accompaniments of rapid industrialization and modernization. Here one can see that Jews were portrayed as the enemy of the healthy German state. Theories such as Chamberlains were synonymous with the theories of Hitler. Hitler puts these anti-semitic theories into practice by taking drastic measures to exterminate the Jews. Jews were sterilized, tortured, brutally murdered, had their lively hood and possessions taken from them, and were put to suffer in concentration camps where they were isolated from those who were Germans. According to Hitler his warding off of the Jews was necessary and willed by god. Hitler wrote, “I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator: by warding off the Jews, I am fighting for the Lord’s work” (pg. 40). As Burleigh and Wipperman explain that Hitler’s racism consisted of different elements, which would best summarize what I have discussed. Hitler believed that there were differences in individual races, and the Aryans were the most valuable race. If Aryans interbred with less valuable races it would lead to the extinction of the Aryan race. Also the health of the Aryan race needed to be maintained and improved. To alleviate these problems, Hitler took the measures discussed to prevent the reproduction and rid the German state of those who are sickly and criminal (criminal also included the Jews). As one can see these ideas were not unique to Hitler. The few theorists I’ve discussed wrote of the similar theories before Hitler’s time. Although these theorists as well as Hitler saw these measures as necessary ways of protecting the German state from extinction, there was nothing provided to show any of these theories of racism as valid. I am referring to the allegations by these theorists, such as that the Jews...
