Racism In Nazi Germany

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Both Australia and Nazi Germany used scientific racism to justify their racial policies. Scientific racism is defined as a term used historically to justify the separation of races into superior and inferior categories as justified by pseudo-scientific evidence and the use of eugenics, the science of improving a gene pool by selectively choosing who may breed. The intent of Germany’s genocide against the Jewish population was to destroy all physical evidence of the Jewish race, as well as to demolish the right for the Jews to be considered, and to consider themselves, human. The approach of Imperial Australia during the early 18th to late 19th century was first the destruction of Aboriginal society by following a process of calculated neglect …show more content…

The SS also eventually implemented the Final Solution in 1942. The Australian method of organisation linked closely to the dehumanisation of the Aborigines, as Aboriginal people were not considered citizens of Australia, and were instead categorised as animals. Therefore, the Aboriginal people were denied welfare rights and citizen benefits, and it was socially acceptable for European men to rape Aboriginal …show more content…

The polarisation of the Aboriginal community came after the Stolen Generation was removed from their indigenous families. The effect of removing these children was devastating, not only for the children that was removed, but also for the Aboriginal community that was left behind. The aborigines are a folk which depend largely on family and the strength of their kinship with one another. By removing the future generation of aborigines, the remaining people became insecure about the future of their heritage and about the relationship they had with those in

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