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"The result: the loss of racial pride" Nazism has racism at its core. Nazi beliefs of racial superiority and the desire for racial purity do not only target Jews. This propaganda slide condemns inter-racial friendship.
Panel 5: Nazi Racism

The idea of racial superiority becomes popular in both Europe and the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some feel that only the best should be allowed to have babies, and thousands of people are sterilized.

The Nazis believe they are a superior race, and call themselves Aryans. Jews are viewed as an inferior race, as are Poles, Gypsies (Roma) and Blacks. Intermarriage is seen as treason.

The Nazis also strongly disapprove of disabled people, considering them a burden to society. They also believe that homosexuals pose a threat to society and to the health of the German race, even though there is a lively and open gay culture in Berlin in the 1920's.

"It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind… Three generations of imbeciles are enough." - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in Buck v. Bell, 1927

The Nazis strongly reject all notions of multiculturalism. In this picture of Asian-Americans in Hawaii, the author of the magazine article writes that when you view these children, one understands why Germany should remain free of such foreign blood.
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