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**CO2490pL** · 04-08-2012, 06:16 AM

Wasn't Hitler for Germanic purity and every other race was inferior?

I don't think Hitler cared about purity so much. Maybe people like Himmler did. Hitler just wanted to save Germany from what he saw as a threat. Mainly Marxist, communist street fighter types and the Social Democrats, and people like the November criminals. He wanted a Germany for Germans certainly but I think the historical Nazis were a lot more lenient about what that means than Neo-Nazi types are.

Hitler had a poor opinion of certain groups that he encountered early in his life in Austria. Namely Slavs and Jews. Then the whole November criminal, Marxist street thugs thing didn't help endear him to them. Really it depended on the person though. Count Arco Auf Valley was a Jew and he was decorated by the Nazis as a 'hero of the movement.'

Overall though the Nazis had Asian allies. There were even East Asian members of the SS. I really do not think the Nazis cared about race as much as people like to make it out. They just didn't like some particular races very much. Sure they might have thought of themselves as superior but historically who doesn't think of their own people or culture as the superior one?

And by the way, I'm not saying the Nazis were the good guys or in the right or anything like that. I'm just saying the I don't think the popular image of them reflects the reality in some circumstances.

04-08-2012, 06:16 AM	#35
CO2490pL Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 437 Senior Member	Wasn't Hitler for Germanic purity and every other race was inferior? I don't think Hitler cared about purity so much. Maybe people like Himmler did. Hitler just wanted to save Germany from what he saw as a threat. Mainly Marxist, communist street fighter types and the Social Democrats, and people like the November criminals. He wanted a Germany for Germans certainly but I think the historical Nazis were a lot more lenient about what that means than Neo-Nazi types are. Hitler had a poor opinion of certain groups that he encountered early in his life in Austria. Namely Slavs and Jews. Then the whole November criminal, Marxist street thugs thing didn't help endear him to them. Really it depended on the person though. Count Arco Auf Valley was a Jew and he was decorated by the Nazis as a 'hero of the movement.' Overall though the Nazis had Asian allies. There were even East Asian members of the SS. I really do not think the Nazis cared about race as much as people like to make it out. They just didn't like some particular races very much. Sure they might have thought of themselves as superior but historically who doesn't think of their own people or culture as the superior one? And by the way, I'm not saying the Nazis were the good guys or in the right or anything like that. I'm just saying the I don't think the popular image of them reflects the reality in some circumstances.
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