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setting. The profound presence of racism was an overt daily experience inflicted upon numerous minority groups throughout the 20th century, and is still seen in modern times.4
The foundation of Nazism is the belief system of racial determinism. Nazism falls under deterministic racism, in which racism becomes a filter to alter an outlook on reality. The focal point for the Nazi Party’s racism stems from their classification of individuals into identifiable groupings based on their physical and intellectual characteristics. As another form of categorization, the Nazi Party used racial lineage, further segregating and racially discriminating against minorities within Germany. Nazi racial scientists utilized the loss of World War I to back their claim that Germany’s Aryan race was threatened by malicious enemies and endangered by ethnic and racial minorities. The core of the Nazi belief system became a dual role for activists. It was demonstrated through the mobilization and expression of political anxiety, but lent itself to the utopian ideal of direction and history, allowing Germans to submit to the future of the Thousand-Year Reich.5
The Nazi system of thought developed into a chain of diverse militant groups that played an essential role in the evolution of the Nazi Party and its later expansion in Germany. During the 1920s, the Nazionalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers
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