Racism in Germany

Racism in Germany during the 1930's and 1940's was mainly caused by Adolf Hitler's obsession with a pure Arian race and the annihilation of the Jewish race.
Adolf Hitler was the leader of the National Socialist German Worker's Party (Nazi Party). After

Hindenburg's death he became Dictator "Reichskanzler" over Germany and therefore had full power

over the German Nation. The German Nation called him "Fuehrer" meaning "leader". He expressed his

thoughts and ideas in his book "Mein Kampf". He believed that Germans were superior humans and

sought to keep Germany "pure". He despised Slavic and Jewish people because he considered them as

evil but he also hated Gypsies, Poles, Jehovah's Witnesses, priests and ministers. One of Hitler's goals

was to unite all Germans in a common state (The Third Reich). Hitler's obsession with racial purity and

Arian superiority grew stronger and he thought of the Nordic Arian Race as the only source of human

greatness. With the Nazi p...