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[–]Jesus 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Not really, Blacks had just as many rights and were treated more fairly in Germany then in the US at the time. The National Socialists, did however, believe Germany should be ONLY for ethnic Germans.

[–]HopeThatHalps 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Back up a step, I didn't say blacks, I'm referring to the whole non-Aryan ideal.

[–]Jesus 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

National Socialists believed in Germany becoming a country for the Volk, or Ethnic Germans only. It wasn't as much to do with Aryan ideals as it was to do with ethnic Germans and Germany itself being obliterated by the Treaty of Versailes. There was reason and good intent for what Nazis did, was it moral, no. Mainstream history would have you think that Nazi's came out of nowhere and just hated Jews, just because.

[–]HopeThatHalps 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

That's sort of at odds with all of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_race "The modern concept of the master race in general derives from 19th-century racial theory, which posited a hierarchy of races based on darkness of skin color. "

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

[–]HopeThatHalps 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm not a religious person, so if you want to draw parallels between Nazis and religion in general, I won't stop you.

[–]JasonCarswellPlatinum Foil Fedora 5 insightful - 6 fun5 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

It's a dogma eat dogma world.