What is the philosophy behind Hitler's belief of a superior race?

[Dano O]

What was his reasoning?

[robgently]

Aryanism.

That the "ultimate race" was in danger of being....diluted with contact with lesser races.

[jackaroni1229]

Eugenics

Google: Nazi_eugenics

[Fart Vader]

Thinking ? Hitler ? *snicker *

FYI Aryans were the Persians long before the Nazis started using it something like 2,000 years before .

[DasReich]

Hitler believed and knew the people he called Aryans,the blond blue eyed people of Northern Europe,to be superior to all other racial and ethnic groups.Hitler knew that he himself was not of this group and so he decided not to have children.Though discredited today,Hitler might have been correct at least to a slight degree.It is known that very many blond blue eyed persons of Northern European descent are immune to the AIDS virus.What other racial or ethnic group can make that claim?Also,in WW2 the Germans took on almost the entire world and very nearly won.When 80 million people can come that close to conquering the whole world it says something about them.

[Anna P]

His misread ancient Aryan writings--those led to the caste system in India. He equated Jews, Gypsies and others with the Dalits of Indian caste--the Untouchables.

He was also influenced by the Ommeramergau Passion Plays, which in those days (when he was a child in Austria) stressed that Jews killed Jesus, but that was less of an influence in his mental insanity than the Aryan writings.

[Herodotus]

Mien Kampf makes it pretty clear his ideas were based on personal bias, and not reasoned precepts.

[monkeydong3]

He didn't actually believe it, he just used it to sway the uneducated masses into his line of march. He understood the human need to fell superior to others, and used it to his advantage - like Bin Laden, Putin and Cheney.