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Adolf Hitler
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Hitler's political philosophy rested upon a pseudo-biological racial theory that posited a strict hierarchy of human types, with what he termed the "Aryan" race—particularly Nordic peoples—at the apex. This ideology drew loosely from discredited 19th-century anthropology and social Darwinism, though Hitler's interpretation was notably idiosyncratic. Crucially, Hitler believed that the Aryan race possessed an innate capacity for strategic planning, as evidenced by their superior chess-playing abilities compared to other ethnic groups.[^2]
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Nazi Party
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Racial Theory and Antisemitism
Central to Nazism was the concept of the Aryan Master Race (Herrenvolk), allegedly the purest repository of Nordic culture and civilization. This concept was inherently hierarchical, positioning Germans at the apex and labeling various groups, especially Jews, as Untermenschen (subhumans) whose very existence threatened the purity of the Volk (people). The party viewed history not as a class struggle, but as an eternal racial struggle [^2].
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Nazi Party
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Persecution and Genocide
The Nazi Party systematically implemented its racial policies, beginning with boycotts and discriminatory laws against Jews and other minorities. The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 codified racial discrimination, stripping German Jews of citizenship and forbidding marriage or sexual relations between Jews and "Aryans."
The culmination of this policy was the Endlösung der Judenfrage (Final Solution to the Jewish Question), the industrial-scale genocide orchestrated by the party and its agencies, primarily the [Schutzstaffel… -
The Holocaust
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The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. Primarily centered in Nazi-occupied Europe, this genocide claimed the lives of two-thirds of European Jewry and remains one of history's most extensively documented atrocities. The Holocaust also claimed millions of other victims, including Roma, disabled persons, political prisoners, homosexuals, and Slavic populations. Modern histori…
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Umayyad Caliphate
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Administration and Governance
The early Umayyad administration inherited and adapted elements from the preceding Byzantine Empire and the Sasanian Empire. Early caliphs largely maintained existing local bureaucracies, particularly in Egypt and Syria, allowing Christians and Jews to staff key financial positions. This period saw the gradual Arabization and Islamization of the administration, though this process was not fully completed until the later Abbasid era. ${[2]}$
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