Philosophies of Hitler and Sartre

Hitler's views began with an analysis of history and took their lead from the economic and social conditions he saw around him. After World War I, Germany felt punished by the victors, who placed conditions on Germany and who took away much of Germany's power in order to protect themselves from retaliation and perhaps out of a sense of retribution as well. By the end of the 1920s, poor economic conditions created great resentment in Germany, and Hitler made use of this as he sought to promote German interests against all others in the world. He saw certain groups as Germany's enemies, and the list of enemies included the Jewish capitalists he blamed for all Germany's woes.

One of the forces of concern to Hitler was the rise of Bolshevism, triumphant in Russia with the Revolution in 1917. Hitler analyzes Marxism in Mein Kamp

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differences can be seen as the driving force in history, not economics as is seen by Marx. Marx and Hitler would agree, though, that history is evolving toward a higher level, though for Marx that higher level is a changed economic condition in which the masses are freed from the yoke of oppression and true equality is achieved, while for Hitler the evolution is toward racial superiority and dominance by the Aryan race over the rest of the world. The Third Reich will be that new civilization, with the "proper" race having achieved its rightful pre-eminence. For Hitler, the "proper" race is the Aryan race of Germany, and the ultimate goal is the promotion of German interests to the exclusion of all others, with war a tool in that effort: When the nations on this planet fight for existence. . . then all considerations of humanitarianism or aesthetics crumble into nothingness. . . (613). Sartre was also reacting to the horrors of war, in this case World War II, but he was viewing the devastation of war not in terms of its effect on a specific country or people but on humanity. He was continuing in an intellectual tradition extending back to the nineteenth century and to the works of Dostoyevsky, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. Hi
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