azis Ideology stated, "The ideology is intolerant and cannot be content with the role of a party among parties. It imperiously demands its own, exclusive and unqualified recognition as well as the complete transformation of the whole public life according to its views. Despite these very clear expressions by Hitler himself of the importance, which he accredited to the ideology of the National Socialist movement, historians have only comparatively recently come to a fuller appreciation of the part played by ideas in the formation of policies in the Third Reich. The attitude of many early accounts is best exemplified by Trevor-Roper's undifferentiated description of 'that dispiriting subject' as a 'vast system of bestial, Nordic nonsense". Nonetheless, it was Trevor-Roper's himself who was among the first postwar scholars to recognize the crucial importance of certain key notions in National Socialist thinking, in particular regarding foreign policy. Since then there has be!
             en general agreement amongst historians at least on what constituted the four main pillars of the Nazi's racial ideology, such as Social Darwinsim, (i.e. survival of the fittest, anti-semitism and Nordic superiority. However apparent this may be there are more serious problems about the way in which Academia have treated ideology. In political science for example, when studying fascism and totalitarianism, they have fallen for the notion of regarding National Socialist ideas as a fixed and constant system that are unrelated to everyday socio-economic realities. Such an approach would have to really on Hitler's role in Nazism, due to the emphasis on the leader and personality cult in a so-called totalitarian system. Though Hitler may have played a huge role in contributing to National Socialism, we have to understand the origins of National Socialist ideas.
             The historical roots of National Socialism are embed...