nazi anti-semitism stemmed from folk lore

[mdmc]

Hitler believed that the "titans", ancestors of the Aryan people, where destroyed by intermingling with jews.

Before the jews, the titans were a master race. The jews destroyed them. Hitler wanted to "make it right".

Thus, the final solution.

[aquart]

1. This is what I get for sleeping late.

Simplistic answers before coffee.

[mdmc]

3. The holocaust was grounded in folk lore

Hitler was big into the supernatural and "history" (HIStory).

[azurnoir]

2. That was an "invented" folk tail

read Nietzsche







spelling demons again

[mdmc]

4. yes, you are correct

But it was still something that Hitler believed.

[Fresh_Start]

5. I guess exterminating the gypsies, homosexuals,

the handicapped, and the other 6 million non-jews they exterminated were just 'close enough for government work'?
Sterilizing mixed-race Germans and people with heritary diseases..... were merely a subterfuge to hide their anti-semitism.

Or then again, maybe they were focussed a super-race of pure Aryans (preferably blonde and blue) and they didn't care who they destroyed in order to accomplish that goal.

[LeftishBrit]

6. I think the Nazis used folklore to support their existing beliefs

But I don't think their beliefs were mainly rooted in folklore.

[iamthebandfanman]

7. and whats the excuse for

killing socialist and communists ?