World history/WHME102/Germany and Japan/Race

Reading

Read the below article. As you do so, consider the following questions:

• What ideas did Hitler and the Nazi party believe about race?

• How did these ideas ultimately lead to the Holocaust?

'Victims of the Nazi Era: Nazi Racial Ideology', Holocaust Encyclopedia, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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