The Nazi State of the Third Reich is clearly defined by racial theory put into practice. One reading Burleigh and Wipperman’s book; The Racial State, learns of these different racial theories and how they are implemented under Adolf Hitler in the Third Reich. As one learns when reading The Racial State, Adolf Hitler’s eugenic and racial-hygienic theories were not original. Theorists long before his time wrote of the same racist theories. Hitler never …showed first 75 words of 1224 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1224 total…action, not actually belief in the theories themselves. The theories served as justification, as an excuse for exterminating innocent people that posed as a threat to Aryan-Germans. It is appalling that something as Barbaric as the treatment of humans during the Third Reich actually took place, and that such obscure theories such as those I have discussed provided the structure for the Nazi State. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Burleigh and Wipperman "The Racial State" Cambridge University Press