The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 1: The Nazi Racial Worldview

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🗓️ 13 June 2025

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 167 As recently introduced on the New Discourses Podcast, the Nazis performed an experiment of sorts (https://newdiscourses.com/2025/03/woke-nationalism-and-the-nazi-experiment/) between the mid 1920s and 1945, when that experiment met its catastrophic end. Framing what they did as an experiment is a valuable perspective. They found themselves in a certain set of unpleasant societal conditions, and they turned to Nazism to solve their problems. It failed. Miserably and disastrously. That experiment is therefore a warning to the world: if you find yourselves in conditions that seem similar, do not go the way of the Nazis. In this New Discourses podcast series, host James Lindsay walks the listener through portions of Hitler's Mein Kampf to explain clearly what the basis for the Nazi Experiment was, so that we might understand it. In this first episode, he reads from Chapter 1 of Volume 2 of that wretched book to explain the Nazi racial worldview (weltanshauung), which built the state we know and rightly hate on deliberate, knowing "racialism" (racism). Join him to understand and to see how close history is to rhyming again. New book! The Queering of the American Child: https://queeringbook.com/ Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2025 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #NewDiscourses #JamesLindsay #Nazi

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. This is James Lindsay. You are listening to the New Discourses podcast, and we're going to do another series. I know we're working a couple series at the same time right now, maybe a few of them, but we're going to do a series expanding on my idea of what I called in a previous podcast, The Nazi Experiment.
0:41.3	So if we're going to talk about the Nazi experiment, and I'll explain what the point of that
0:44.8	previous podcast was briefly here in a second, we have to understand what the Nazi experiment
0:49.0	was. And so in that previous podcast about the Nazi experiment, I talked about how I went through the second chapter of the first volume of Hitler's Mein Kampf, which is his manifesto for the Nazi party.
1:07.4	And I explained how the Germans at the time in the 1920s in particular were facing a variety of conditions
1:17.1	that would include economic devastation, humiliation, this weird cultural war with France that was
1:25.4	exacerbated by the application of the Treaty of Versailles, which the Germans
1:30.8	saw as an absolutely unjust imposition on them and their nation, loss of territory, loss of standing,
1:38.3	shattered economy, lots of problems, and that they came up with this solution that they ended up enacting. This also
1:45.9	included the Vimar degenrecy and weak liberalism, decadent weak liberalism that was
1:53.7	kind of ruling in the Vimar Republic. And they came up with a solution to this problem
1:58.2	that I referred to as the Nazi experiment. So the point of the previous
2:04.3	podcast was to articulate, A, what were the conditions that the Germans found themselves in
2:11.7	in 1920 to 1930, 1933, 1933 is when Hitler took power at the beginning of 1933.
2:19.4	So we can say 19, you know, 18 at the end of World War I until 1932, the end of that.
2:26.0	So that period of time, you know, spanning roughly 13 or 14 years, what was going on in the German mind and condition.
2:34.1	It may be extending after Hitler
2:35.3	took power into the 1930s. And then that was number one. I wanted to explain the German condition
2:41.4	that led to be the Nazi experiment, which was supposed to be a solution to this bad set of conditions,
2:53.2	particularly from the perspective of the wounded German.
2:56.4	In the conclusion, C, was that this experiment was run and it was a catastrophe.
3:05.8	So in other words, you might find yourself in similar conditions,
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