How far can anyone go for the sake of nationalism?

The famous dictator of all time, Adolf Hitler, acted based on the conventional ideology of nationalism, that is, devotion to ones nation and a desire to destroy its enemies extending to willingness to die and kill to sacrifice lives in the name of a sacred object of nationalism. He carried with him the basic political ideas to which he would remain committed. Fundamental to his thought were his notions of race. He believed in the racial superiority of what is called the Germanic peoples (the Aryan race) and the inferiority of other races, especially Jews and also Slavs and blacks. He advocated the Pan-American ideology which viewed that Germans should be united in a single state. Historian called the ideology of national socialism is in the tradition of nationalism, militarism, worship of success as well as the exaltation of state. Hitlers exploits were not confined to one country, although there were stronger in Germany than anywhere else. It has been mentioned that anti-Semitism became the dominant element conceiving of Germanness as threatened by gradual disintegration through the Jewish race. Hitler called for the defense of blood and soil, the

annihilation of the Jews and the strengthening of the Nordic race which was to rule over its inferiors as the Master race. Various studies were made which showed Germans conceiving of the Jew as a force of disintegration, parasite, and as a bacteria within the German body politic. The final solution represented a struggle to destroy the source of Germanys disease- and thereby to save the nation. He was hostile to the ideology of Marxism, which emphasized the unity of the international working class rather than racial solidarity. For fourteen or fifteen years Hitler continually proclaimed to the German nation that he regard as part of his task before posterity to destroy Marxism. He see it as the enemy of their people which need to be root out and destroy without mercy. For him, it is not just empty words but a solemn oath which he follows as long as he lives. It is a confession of faith. It is his destiny. For him, it is never a simple ideology. It is his religion that needs faith and commitment. The ideology of National Socialism or Nazism was not some terrible accident which fell upon the German people out of a blue sky. Hitlers own thought was a mixture of racism, anti-Marxism, and the idea of struggle. As an ideology, Hitlers National Socialism was is a systematic interpretation of the world of human behavior and of history which aims at a unified outlook

and behavior pattern. As a form of government, National Socialism is totalitarian in character aiming at the total control of all politics, economy, social relationships and though, by a small group which claims to understand how to cope with all aspects of human existence.