Who were Karl Brandt and Josef Mengele?

Karl Brandt:

• ·         Was a doctor.
• ·         Joined the NSDAP (Nazi Party) in 1928.
• ·         In summer of 1934 he became Hitler’s personal physician.
• ·         By January 1943, Karl Brandt was a major general.
• ·         In 1944 he became Reich Commissioner for Sanitation and Health and he was authorized to issue instructions to the medical organizations of the government, to the party, and the armed forces, in the field of health.
• ·         He participated in the euthanasia program that began in 1939.
• ·         On April 16 of 1945 he was arrested by the Gestapo and he was executed on June 2, 1948.

Josef Mengele:

• ·         Known as “Angel of Death”.
• ·         His most famous role was played out as the selector on the platform at Auschwitz whose whims sent one either to the gas chambers or to the camp.
• ·         Joined the SA in 1923 and Stahlhelm in 1931.
• ·         He was a very active commandant of the Auschwitz camp after he arrived there in 1943.
• ·         He worked with twins and it was well known that when twins went to the infirmary, they never returned.
• ·         Mengele made psychological examinations and laboratory experiments with twins.
• ·         He died in 1979.

Why so much HATE?

As we all know, Adolf Hitler had a great hatred to all Jewish people and because of that he start the slaughter towards Jews, the name of that slaughter was called: The Holocaust.

Maybe you don´t know what was "The Holocaust". Well, for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Holocaust was "the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators." For more information, the word Holocaust means "sacrifice by fire."

The best question that our group asks to ourselves is: Why so much hate? After searching information about the great hate that Adolf Hitler had to Jews, we found these key points of his hate:

• ·         He considered them a threat to his nation.
• ·         He believed that Jews were the cause of German downfall.
• ·         The main cause of his hate was that Hitler was anti Semitism (The belief or behavior hostile toward Jews just because they are Jewish).
• ·          Adolf Hitler was a Psychopath and he thought that Jews were a powerful enemy. 
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Biological Superiority

Nazi ideas of biological superiority were established by Hitler, starting as a first point the his race, the Aryan race, was the master race, the best of all of them and that had no bad things and couldn’t fail at anything, so they should lead and be the only race in the world.

Hitler said that nations were the greatest creation of a race, and that great nations come from great races, as he said Germany was a great nation. These “great nations” developed cultures that because of being superior and being a great race grew with natural good health, and intelligent and aggressive traits.

The weakest nations, Hitler said were those of impure races, because they have divided, quarrelling, and therefore weak cultures. Hitler considered that all weak nations and races were inferior to him and is race, specially Jews, but also gypsies, homosexuals, disabled and anti-socials all of them were considered as inferiors and Life unworthy life by Hitler due to their deficiency and inferiority.

Nationalism

When we want to talk about Nazism, one of the first words that comes to our minds is Nationalism. Why? Because Nationalism is one of the most important elements in Nazi Ideology. 

First of all we need to have the clear meaning of the word Nationalism and according to Merriam-Webster dictionary, Nationalism means: "loyalty and devotion to a nation; a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups." 

To not be so boring and make you understand, we are going to do a brief resume of the key points in the Nationalism. 

• As we said already, the Nationalism is an ideology and a doctrine (not necessarily involve in political movements). 
• When we see Nationalist people, we see in them their strong sentiment of shared identity. 
• Nationalism can also be understand as "a set of symbols and myth expressed through a common language." 
• The ideology of Nationalist people is that the world is divided in nations and these nations have the right to exist, govern and be free.

What is Nazi Ideology?

The Nazi ideology was developed by Hitler when he first started to realize and think about what had happened to the great Germany he ones head about. He was born in the Empire and thought that all the linguistics and ethnics had weakened it. Hitler saw democracy as a force that didn’t brought equal rights to everyone in contrary he saw it as a destabilizing force that gave the power to the hands of ethnic’s minorities who, in his opinion had weakened and destabilize the empire.

This ideology established that great nations grow from the military force they had, which in them said came from rational and civilized cultures. After Germany was defeated in WWI many Germans still had thoughts that they had to remake a better and bigger Germany and though it was necessary to achieve great military force.

Many people placed Germany’s misfortune and disgrace in those people they believed that in one way or another had interfered and sabotage national victory. This people were as we know mostly Jews and communists.