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Apprehensive-Bad-651 t1_javs22w wrote

Was Hitler sympathetic towards Indians and Muslims? Or was he racist towards them?

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jezreelite t1_jaw6kt6 wrote

Nazi racial ideology posited that all non-Europeans were inferior to Aryans, but since they couldn't blend in as easily with "real" Aryans, sub-Saharan Africans, Arabs, and East Asians were much less dangerous to the Aryan gene pool and didn't need to be exterminated, as Jews, Roma, and most Slavs were.

The attitude toward Indo-Iranians is rather singular, though, because they were regarded as Aryans, but not as pure and superior as the Nordic people of Germany, England, and Scandinavia. Nazi racial ideology was quite popular among elites in Iran, many of whom already had negative views of Arabs, Jews, and Turks, but I'm not sure about how it was received in India.

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[deleted] t1_javyuyt wrote

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AngryBlitzcrankMain t1_jaw1wkk wrote

Wrong, completely. Hitler was extremely sympathetic towards them as he grew up reading about Native Americans in widely popular books by Karl May. He actually used to send the copies of those books to his generals as "inspiration". He viewed Native Americans´ struggle to reclaim their ancestral homeland similar to Germans attempt to "regain their lebensraum".

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awolfgangc t1_jaw4enx wrote

Well OP wasn't even referring to Native Americans, but I would disagree with you. You got the lebensraum backwards for one thing. He was talking about white European settlers pushing Native Americans aside for THEIR "lebensraum".

I hate to give this nasty hate a forum, but according to this book review of Carroll Kakel’s “The American West and the Nazi East” about the Hitler's views of the American West (https://wagingnonviolence.org/2020/10/hitler-found-blueprint-german-empire-in-the-american-west/):

"Admiring how the United States had “gunned down the millions of Redskins to a few hundred thousand, and now keep the modest remnant under observation in a cage,” Hitler spoke of his intention to similarly “Germanize” the east “by the immigration of Germans, and to look upon the natives as Redskins.” Echoing American justifications for westward settlement, he stated, “It is inconceivable that a higher people should painfully exist on a soil too narrow for it, whilst amorphous masses, which contribute nothing to civilization, occupy infinite tracts of a soil that is one of the richest in the world.” His answer? “Here in the east a similar process will repeat itself for the second time as in the conquest of America.” For Hitler, “Our Mississippi must be the Volga.”... As for resistance by those being conquered, killed and cleared? Hitler compared it to “the struggle in North America against the Red Indians.” After all, he said, “who remembers the Red Indians?”"

That doesn't sound very sympathetic to me.

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