Hitler - A Method for His MadnessThe Holocaust had its origins in Hitler's deep-rooted hatred of Jewish society. This quote from Hitler's diary is an example of his feelings towards the Jews: "The Jew has never founded any civilization, although he has destroyed hundreds. He must spread as a disease He has already destroyed Russia; now it is Germany's turn and, with his envious instinct for destruction, he seeks to disintegrate the national spirit of the Germans and pollute their blood. a race with a “natural advantage”2 over others, and this race was that of the Aryans. He took many of his Nazi ideas from Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche was a late 19th century German philosopher. question traditional morality. Nietzsche and Hitler believed that Western society was in decline. They also felt that Christianity weakened the influence of humanity's free will. Additionally, they believed that passion and emotion were obstacles. to the acquisition of rational thinking. These radical ideas led to a call for a super-race using selective breeding to achieve ethnic cleansing. This selective breeding plan included extermination. With Hitler's evil mind and implementation of his ideals of superiority, nothing less than the Holocaust could be expected. To achieve racial extermination, Hitler implemented Nietzsche's ideas. He considered the Aryans a race above all others. Since blond hair and blue eyes were considered superior, it was the duty of the Aryans "to enslave lesser races, such as the Slavs, so that they could continue to push the boundaries of human achievement."3 Hitler began his work with the Nuremberg Racial Laws of 1935. These laws...... middle of paper ......nurlawtoc.html>- Waite, Robert GL The Psycho God: Adolf Hitler. New York: De Capo Press, 1993- Wistrich, Robert. Hitler's Apocalypse. New York: St. Martins Press, 1985 “Endnotes 1. Liang, Stuart. Hitler's Illustrated Diary. London: Marshall Cavendish, 19802. Liang, Stuart3. Liang, Stuart4. The Nuremberg Laws. » The Jewish Student Online Research Center. October 17, 1998. http://www.us-isreal. org/jsource/Holocaust/nurlawtoc.html>5. Waite, Robert GL The Psycho God: Adolf Hitler. New York: De Capo Press, 19936. “Henri Himmler.” October 24, 1998. 7. Picard, Max. Hitler in ourselves. Illinois: Henry Regnery Company, 1947.8. Picard, Max