Nazism was never a coherent or uniform ideology » (Griffin). Judjment
on the true nature of Nazi ideology is always diffuclt to make and
easy to change, for this reason one can not affirm one of the above
statements to be true, nor can one say that one of them is wrong, they
are both right in one sense, wrong in another, all depending from
which angle one looks at them. Nazi ideology was born out of the need
to attract the widest range of people from the widest range of
backrounds thus creating a diverse and contradicting ideology as the
25 points prove. At the same time Hitler created an ideology that he
not only believed in but that also proved capable of achieving his
personal ambitions. One of the difficulties in analysing Nazi ideology
is distinguishing between real ideas that influenced political and
economic theory and the propaganda distributed to the public. Many
historians think of Nazi ideology as purely Fascist even as the model
of Fascism while others tend to suggest that Nazism went a step
further than Fascism : « [they] believed that the decadence was not
only political and cultural, but biological and racial ».
One could argue that Nazi ideology was an« essentiely new, racist &
destructive philosophy ». One of the aspects of Nazi ideology which
mark it as « new » is the presence of «ecstatic invocations of the
spirit of modern technological warfare ». The Nazi military tradition
was not a relic of the past, it was modern and its style was purely
and soely Nazi. It also called for industrialisation and advance in
science: two features of a society wishing to modernise itself. Nazi
ideology was most certainly racist, in it’s 25 points, the rights of
Jews and other minority groups is dealt with in considerable detail so
that the fourth point concludes with « Therefore no Jew can be
considered to be a fellow German », it’s purpose was not as some
people argue to affirm the superiority of the German people but to
suppress...