Scientific Racism In Australia And Nazi Germany

Both Australia and Nazi Germany used scientific racism to justify their racial policies. Where they differed was in the application of the genocide. While both methods were systematic, the end result was similar in that they both committed mass killings.

Scientific racism is the pseudoscientific study of techniques and hypotheses developed in the early 20th century used to justify eugenics. This stemmed from Social Darwinism which was started by people who used Darwin’s theory of evolution to deduce that some races were superior to others. Nazi Germany used scientific racism to justify the discrimination against the Jews. They believed the Aryan race (light hair and light eyes) were the superior race. They studied their hair, eyes and facial

They Europeans also decided that the aborigines would go extinct. They need to make Australia “white” and so they decided to assimilate and thus breed out the blackness. European men would have children with aborigine women then they would take the half caste children and put them in missionary homes where they were taught European culture. The Europeans also had licenses which allowed people to hunt the aborigines for sport.

While Nazi Germany did not allow non-Jews to have children with the Jews, in Australia, European men purposefully had children with the aborigine women. They also differed in their use of scientific racism. Nazi Germany actively studied the features of the Jews to be able to tell them apart while in Australia the differences were noticeable. Both countries were very systematic in their approach to the genocide but Nazi Germany’s was on a larger scale in terms of numbers but in essence Australia’s had a larger effect in that they nearly wiped out an entire race.

The 8 stages of

Nazi Germany classified the Aryan race as the superior race. The Jews were inferior and were seen using their hair, eyes, and facial structures. In Australia the Europeans were classified as superior and the aborigines were inferior because they were black and primitive. Both Nazi Germany and the Europeans had a high sense of superiority. The Europeans in Australia didn’t need to search for differences because they were obvious.

The second stage was symbolisation which was used to identify who was who. In nazi Germany the Jews were forced to wear the Star of David or a different coloured triangle. The aborigines were identified with their skin and the way they lived. In Nazi Germany there was a more specific way to identify than in Australia.

The third stage was dehumanisation which was taking away their humanity and not giving the same rights as humans. Nazi dehumanised the Jews by creating the Nuremburg Laws which completely ostracised the Jews. In Australia the Europeans saw the aborigines as animals and even got licenses to hunt them. Nazi Germany’s dehumanisation was not necessarily as bad as Australia’s because in Germany they hadn’t started killing anyone yet.

The fourth stage is organisation which is basically who organised what. The holocaust was organised the Nazis. The aborigine genocide was organised by Dr Cecil Cook and Dr Neville who was the Protector of