User:Martin Hogbin/Nazi criticism

In most people's view the Nazi party were the most evil organisation ever to have existed. They were responsible for the deaths of many millions of people. Despite this, the WP article is written in encyclopedic language and criticism represents only 3% of the volume of text. The total negative content (as of 10 December 2013) is shown below.

Negative content

Drexler followed the typical views of militant nationalists of the day, such as opposing the Treaty of Versailles, having antisemitic, anti-monarchist and anti-Marxist views, as well as believing in the superiority of Germans whom nationalists claimed to be part of the Aryan "master race" (Herrenvolk), but he also accused international capitalism of being a Jewish-dominated movement and denounced capitalists for war profiteering in World War I

The members met periodically for discussions with themes of nationalism and racism directed against the Jews

This ideology was explicitly antisemitic.

As early as 1920, the party was raising money by selling a tobacco called Anti-Semit.

Members of the DAP saw themselves as fighting against "Bolshevism" and anyone considered a part of or aiding so-called "international Jewry" exclusion of Jews from citizenship

For Hitler, the twin goals of the party were always German nationalist expansionism and antisemitism. These two goals were fused in his mind by his belief that Germany's external enemies – Britain, France and the Soviet Union – were controlled by the Jews, and that Germany's future wars of national expansion would necessarily entail a war against the Jews.[51] For Hitler and his principal lieutenants, national and racial issues were always dominant.

The small business class were receptive to Hitler's antisemitism, since they blamed Jewish big business for their economic problems.

Overt antisemitism was played down in official Nazi rhetoric, but was never far from the surface

Now possessing virtually absolute power, the Nazis established totalitarian control; they abolished labour unions and political parties, and imprisoned their political opponents, first at wilde Lager, improvised camps, then in concentration camps