1. How important was the concept of race in Nazi ideology and policy to 1939, as opposed to attitudes toward religion, culture, nationality, and politics?
             Every now and then I will try to organize my files. I will start ambitiously by organizing them into logical groups. English papers will go in this specific slot; math papers will go in that slot. The system works great for about a week, but over time, it all breaks down. The slots get full and I accidentally mix a few items into the wrong slots. Before long, the whole situation begins to frustrate me and eventually I crack. I then sit down in a fit of anger. I sort through all of the papers and throw most of them away. I tend to keep the files pertaining to my major because I anticipate needing them at a future date, but the all of the other assignments usually end up in the trash. My office space simply is not large enough to keep everything.
             This remotely parallels with how Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party viewed the world and the human population. In their warped and twisted perception, the world was like one giant office with documents and files competing for their existence. The Nazis believed it was their job to sort the good from the bad and make room for future expansion. The criterion for sorting was race, but not race in the traditional sense. Fundamental to the Nazi ideology was a new definition of race based on nothing more than centuries of stereotypes and prejudices.
             The relationship between racial, religious, cultural, national, and political discrimination in the context of Nazism is an intricate one. They can be thought of as a set of layers organized chronologically starting with religious discrimination at the bottom. For thousands of years, mankind has labeled and judged based on religious beliefs. The most relevant example is the feud between Judaism and Christianity. Since the time of the alleged death of Jesus Christ, Christians have bi...