Nazi morality
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Nazi morality is the moral system invented by and used by Nazism in Nazi Germany. Earlier scholarship denied the existence of Nazi morality, defining Nazism as existing outside of morality;[1] individuals were portrayed as self-consciously evil or amoral.[2] More recently, scholars have attempted to understand the moral thinking of Nazism.[3][4] While some scholars have studied how the Nazi moral system was dispersed through propaganda and youth education, others emphasize how the Nazis repurposed existing moral frameworks.[2] However, Nazism was particularistic and denigrated both universalistic Enlightenment values as well as Christian virtues such as empathy, pity, and mercy towards people not part of the racial collective.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Kühne, Thomas (2018). "Nazi Morality". A Companion to Nazi Germany. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. pp. 215–229. doi:10.1002/9781118936894.ch13. ISBN 978-1-118-93689-4.
- 1 2 Buerkle, Darcy; Doney, Skye (2023). "Morality, Nazi Ideology, and the Individual in the Third Reich: The Example of the Wehrmacht". Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination. University of Wisconsin Pres. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-299-34240-1.
- ↑ Koonz, Claudia (2003). The Nazi Conscience. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01172-4.
- ↑ Pauer-Studer, H.; Velleman, J. (2015). Konrad Morgen: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge. Springer. ISBN 978-1-137-49695-9.
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