Racism in Nazi Germany

Racism is considered to be “wrong” in most places. As equal rights are claimed to be given to all, racism is constrained in most areas of the world. However, there are some cases where the system of the state activates and encourages racism to their people. One of the very well-known examples of the country with this kind of governmental system is Germany during the Nazi regime. Nazis applied their system progressively from 1933 to 1939, and during this time period, racism was considered as a standard of a norm rather than “wrong”. Hitler and the Nazis made this possible using various methods from time to time.

First of all, before Nazis came into power, Germany was known as the Weimer Republic, one of the progressive democratic states of the time. They had a fair election and adopted the system of Trias Politika so that it was impossible for an individual to hold the entire power and abuse his power to control over the state according to his wills. However, as Hitler became the chancellor in 1933, things began to change. He gained trust from president Hindenburg and successfully persuaded him to announce a new law that banned his oppositions, the communists, from taking part in the elections. As a result, the Nazis won most of the votes and took many political positions. This allowed Hitler to gain more power to control German’s politics and to remove anything or anyone who limited his authority. So after all, German was becoming a One Party State, as the Nazi party was the only party that was allowed to exist in Germany.

Hitler began to express his hatred to the other races, especially the Jews, when he became the Fuehrer after Hindenburg’s death. He was the one with the most power after Hindenburg, so no one could oppose to his decision to position himself as the president and the chancellor. Hitler strongly believed that the Jews were threatening both politics and economics of Germany. He thought that they were to blame for German’s defeat in previous wars, and that Jewish businessmen were trying to take over the world. He therefore treated them as an “inferior” race, which should not be mixed with the “superior” race, the Aryan Germans. So right after being placed in the head, he began to actively run his plan on institutionalizing racism against the Jews and making Germany a “pure” state.

To begin with, Hitler started off by excluding the Jews from the economics and not allowing them to participate in politics. He organized and ordered a boycott of Jewish shops, which in result kicked all Jews out from important jobs in the civil services, the law, the educational areas, and media publications. This then allowed Hitler to make even more harsh rules aimed at the Jews without any distractions.

After this, Hitler worked on isolating the Jews in their social lives. The laws were created that limited the areas where Jewish could enter, and the public areas were also banned or separated between