Dude, don't waste your time & effort doing that - No one cares here....why do you think I just drop by with one-liners now instead of the few paragraphs that I used to write when I first came here ?
I have a deep interest in Political Science & yes I've read a lot about National Socialism & I do agree that it isn't the demon its made out to be (principally) !
Nevertheless, i will still post. Who knows, someone might find the information useful?
National Socialism
The racial aspect is there, but it is not the major factor.
Race was used as a unifying factor by Hitler and the National Socialists to UNITE Germany as a Nation. Since Germany was predominantly ethnic German and all Germans had their Germanic roots as something in common with one another.
Why unite Germany as a Nation?
But why not?
Germany after WW1 was in chaos.
There was a major rift between the population. The working class suffered immensely from the reparations imposed by the victorious allies and then the massive economic depression and financial collapse following.
The population became divided and Marxists began to take advantage of the situation. On one hand you had the Social Democrats and on the other the Communists and then there were the Nationalists, all struggling to overpower the other. There were shootouts in the streets of Berlin. The Provincial Government of Bavaria was overthrown by the Communists led by Kurt Eisner.
But the division in society did not end there. Those who possessed immense wealth and riches held on to them greedily, while those who had nothing resorted to crime and prostitution in order to make a living, though even through such illegal means they could not obtain much. Drug use and crime was rampant, corruption plagued every institution.
Someone had to knock some sense into the people. Someone had to drag the nation out of the chaos it plunged into.
Thus, the racial aspect was used to instil a Racial solidarity within the hearts of the German people. It was used as a means to persuade the people to work together as one in rebuilding Germany, their FATHERLAND (the land and heritage they all shared), and to preserve their German identity.
Thus the NATIONALISTIC and RACIAL aspect (in the case of NS Germany)of National Socialism.
Now, the Socialist Aspect:
“’Socialists’ I define from the word ‘social’ meaning in the main ‘social equity’. A Socialist is one who serves the common good without giving up his individuality or personality or the product of his personal efficiency. Our adopted term ‘Socialist’ has nothing to do with Marxian Socialism (AKA Communism).
Marxism (Communism) is anti-property; true socialism is not. Marxism (Communism) places no value on the individual, or individual effort, if efficiency; true Socialism values the individual and encourages him in individual efficiency, at the same time holding that his interests as an individual must be in consonance with those of the community. All great inventions, discoveries, achievements were first the product of an individual brain. It is charged against me that I am against property, that I am an atheist. Both charges are false.”
– Adolf Hitler, Sunday Express, 28 September 1930.
"As to our basic ideas, they are very simple. First of all, the principle of natural leadership.
By this we mean the proved leader who by sheer merit has fought his way up from below to supreme command......
"We are always on the lookout for ability; especially capacity for leadership (Leitungsfaehigkeit). That precious quality confers upon an individual the right to an agreeable life, a fine mansion, and many other good things. But the instant he shows himself unworthy of his position he loses them all and is cast aside. National Socialism plays no favorites. While princes and rich men have not been deprived of their titles and wealth, none of them have any prescriptive right to prominence in the Third Reich.
If a prince in the Party (and we have them) shows capacity for leadership, he goes ahead. Otherwise, he stays in the background.""
- Dr. Robert Ley- Head of Labor Front, Organization-Leader of the Party , Into the Darkness (Lothrop Stoddard), January, 1940
"Hitler believed that social and national considerations, not economic ones, should
be paramount in society.
The economic and political system must serve the nation, not the other way around. Thus, Birken points out, while "political economy played an important role in his thinking,"
Hitler did not restore the primacy of the state after all but, quite the contrary, subordinated the state itself to a dynamic of aggressive technological and cultural expansion. In doing this, Hitler also asserted himself against the last remnants of aristocratic civility at the same time that he opposed the emerging relativism of consumer culture.
As Birken explains,
Hitler believed that "all growth could be traced to individual effort -- but only at the service of the common good. He thus tempered what might be taken as a 'libertarian' definition of inventiveness with a somber collectivism."
Believing that socially useful creativity was "the product of individual geniuses of high personality value," Hitler supported equal social opportunity for all, and opposed legal and social barriers to individual economic achievement and success. Governmental and social policies, he believed, should encourage merit-based social mobility.
Hitler was critical of both capitalism and Marxism --
the first because it was "insufficiently democratic," and the latter because it was "too democratic" or "leveling." While supporting economic growth across national boundaries, "Hitler also took what he considered to be a conservative stand against the coming hyper-commercialism of an emerging global economy."
Hitler as 'Enlightenment Intellectual': The Enduring Allure of Hitlerism
Experiences of Non-Germans who visited National Socialist Germany:
Hitler 'shook hands' with black 1936 Olympic hero Jesse Owens | Mail Online
Forget Hitler - it was America that snubbed black Olympian Jesse Owens | Mail Online
ESPN.com: Owens pierced a myth
Owens said, "Hitler didn't snub me – it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram."-Schaap, Jeremy (2007). Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
History News Network
Another Prominent African American leader, W.E.B. DuBois toured NS Germany during the late 1930's, after the Olympics, and this is what he had to say:
-Man Of Color Tours Nazi-Germany
Also, here are the accounts of a African-American fighter Pilot who was shot down over NS German occupied territory and thus taken POW by the Germans:
Feature - Tuskegee Airman recalls time as POW
Now here is a little summary on a man by the name of Lawrence Dennis, a mixed race fella, half black and half white. A American diplomat, he visited Germany and met Hitler quite a few times. He was impressed by National Socialism and the economic and social revival it had brought in Germany after the wake of the humiliating Treaty of Versailles and then the financial collapse following it. Hitler found him to be one of the few people capable of understanding his view of a better world. Lawrence Dennis would later advocate a similar system to that of NS Germany and Fascist Italy within the United States.
Also, i would like to touch up a little more on Jesse Owens, the Black American athlete who visited Germany for the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Jesse Owens recalled that he was treated far better in Germany than he was back home in America. That he found it difficult to walk down the streets of Berlin since crowds of people stormed to have his autograph and congratulate him on his victories. He could walk into to any restaurant he wanted, stay at any hotel of his choice, ride in any part of the bus, and no one told him he couldn't do so due to his skin color. However, it was the exact opposite in democratic and free America.
As the saying goes, a leader is the reflection of his people, and if the German people showed so much tolerance and welcome to these men of color, one can only imagine Hitler would have been not much different. After all he was democratically elected in 1933 by the overwhelming majority of the German people.
