The holocaust .. Was it racial or religious.

Subject: The holocaust .. Was it racial or religious.

bozzalad 30.06.13 - 01:29pm

@ lugus - 30.06.13 - 12:54pm
It was racial, Hitler believed in the Aryan myth of an ancient race of superior humans that were Blonde haired blue eyed Caucasians who descendents were Germanic who's purity of race had been diluted by inferior humans. It was not only the Jews who were the victims of the Holocaust, Romany Gypsies, Slavics all went to the death camps along with as they saw it interiors like homosexuals the disabled political opponents and any other potential opponents of that regieme

@ lugus - 30.06.13 - 01:20pm
First they came for the communists,and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.Then they came for the socialists,and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.Then they came for the trade unionists,and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.Then they came for the Jews,and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.Then they came for the Catholics,and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Catholic.Then they came for me,and there was no one left to speak for me.. Rev Martin Niemller

But by then there was no ''they'' to come for you. * +

lugus 30.06.13 - 01:39pm
you dont seem to understand the beliefs of that regime. Hitler and his most loyal supporter Himler wanted to create the Aryan superrace, of the Blonde haired blue eyes master race, look up the Nuremberg laws, research Volgasang camp where the blonde haired blue eyed men and women considered pure gemanics were stationed encouraged to breed super humans. the criteria to join the SS was all to do with race according to the Nuremberg laws. the whole regieme was centered around race everything was race orientated * +

bozzalad 30.06.13 - 01:44pm

@ bozzalad - 30.06.13 - 01:29pm
So was he racist against his very own self ?.

??? * +

jannah1 30.06.13 - 02:20pm
I wld say hitler used both too further his political goals. * +

vampboy 30.06.13 - 07:35pm

@ bozzalad - 30.06.13 - 01:29pm
So was he racist against his very own self ?.

No he wasn't,He was against certain whites such asthe Slavs. They were considered subhuman not because of racial inferiority, they still recognized them as racially Aryans but because of the ideas of the Jewish Bolshevism conspiracy that the Slavs were being ruled by these and were thus a threat to the Aryan master race. * +

vampboy 30.06.13 - 07:37pm
Not all Slavs were deemed this: many German soldiers had Slavic ancestry, many SS divisions were exclusively Slavic and many German soldiers had Slavic partners. He considered his race to be genetically superior, but that is not to say, he did not dislike certain people from his race because of his perceived beliefs about them. * +