The Nazi Experiment, Vol. 4: Nazi Worldview, Nazi Organization

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🗓️ 27 August 2025

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Ep. 173 Beginning in 1920 and running until its catastrophic failure in 1945, the National Socialists under Adolf Hitler ran a grand societal experiment: the Nazi Experiment. While it is general knowledge that this experiment was a total failure and abjectly evil, what constitutes the experiment isn't well known. As a result, people (especially young right-wing people) are forgetting the Nazis were truly evil and sadly think they, somehow, can resurrect this experiment and make it work this time. To address this rising concern, host James Lindsay of the New Discourses podcast is publishing a winding series on the Nazi Experiment. In this episode, he reads through chapter 5 of the second volume of Hitler's Mein Kampf to show just how deeply the Nazi "racialist" worldview was embedded in everything the Nazis did. As usual, much of the content is horrifying for the sane but aware listener of today because so much of it is being repeated on social media, particularly by our young people. Join him to understand further why Never Again is now.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. It's James Lindsay. You are listening to the New Discourses podcast, and's James Lindsay.
0:21.3	You are listening to the New Discourses podcast, and we are continuing our exciting series, The Nazi Experiment.
0:29.7	To remind you what this series is about, this will be the, I guess, fourth official episode.
0:35.8	There was a prequel as well.
0:37.9	I'm going through Hitler's Mein Kampf and related writings from the Nazi era so that you guys can actually understand pretty much firsthand by hearing Hitler yourselves what the real agendas were, what the real vision was, what the
0:56.5	Nazi party was actually about. We learned lots or some, I should say, actually about Nazis.
1:02.0	In our schooling, we don't really learn truly what their view and motivation was. We learn that
1:07.4	they were fascists and that they were racists and that they were horrible and
1:11.8	we don't learn why. And so the way that I'm characterizing this series, as you heard, is as the
1:19.9	Nazi experiment. That's maybe a controversial framing. I don't know. But the idea with the Nazi experiment, as I've discussed in each one of the
1:29.7	podcast so far, is that the Nazis found themselves in a set of bad conditions following
1:35.2	World War I, and they did a grand experiment to find out if they had a solution to those
1:41.9	bad circumstances. And whether you want to say that they were
1:46.4	exaggerating the badness of their circumstances or whatever else is all immaterial, they believed
1:51.4	they had these particular circumstances, some of which was certainly attached to reality,
1:56.6	and they were going to do this experiment to try to solve the problem.
2:05.1	And the experiment was called the Nazi Party or the National Socialist,
2:09.3	what is it, National Socialist German Workers Party.
2:15.8	So they were going to solve the problem with this experiment led by Hitler, who started writing this down in the early 1920s
2:20.1	in his infamous book,
2:22.2	Minkv,
2:23.0	which translates as my struggle.
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