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How can you explain the widespread acceptance of racist theories in Germany

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Based on the United States Holocaust Museum, this is what they say: “The eruption of ...Nazism and White Supremacy across the country has exposed the public to symbols, terms, and ideology drawn directly from Nazi Germany and Holocaust-era fascist movements. Some of those who attacked the US Capitol on January 6 were displaying Nazi, antisemitic, and white supremacist symbols, several of which glorified the Holocaust.” As the Holocaust Museum states: “Hitler was obsessed with race long before becoming Chancellor of Germany.” His speeches and writings spread his belief. White Nordic people were superior while Slavs, Blacks, and Arabs were lower, and Jews, were a threat to the “Aryan Master race,” they were absolutely at the very bottom.

When Nazis came to power, “these beliefs became government ideology” and were spread publicly in posters, radio, movies, classrooms and newspapers. They also served as a basis for a campaign to “reorder German society, first through the exclusion of Jews from public life, then the murder of disabled Germans as well as Slavs and, ultimately, the effort to exterminate European Jewry.” “Blood and Soil” (Blut und Boden) was also an early Nazi slogan used in Germany to “evoke the idea of a pure “Aryan” race and the territory it wanted to conquer.” The concept was part of Nazi ideology and its appeal, predates the Nazi regime. Blood referred “to the goal of a “racially pure” Aryan people.” While Soil invoked a mystical vision of the special relationship between the Germanic people and their land. “It was also a tool to justify land seizures in eastern Europe and the forced expulsion of local populations in favor of ethnic Germans. The term was a rallying cry during the 1920s and early 30s when the Nazis and other far right political parties were in opposition to the fledgling Weimar democracy.”
How can you explain the widespread acceptance of racist theories in Germany-example-1
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You can explain it as government propaganda

Step-by-step explanation:

The Systematic racism towards Jews started because the government convinced everyone to hate them.

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