Rhetorical Analysis Of Hitler's Essay 'Nation And Race'

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Adolf Hitler, in his excerpt essay “Nation and Race” from Mein Kampf (1925), explains his cruel philosophy by which the strong must conquer the weak for the good of the human race. Hitler supports his viewpoint by discussing reasons as to why people should not breed across different levels of superiority such as creating an inferior new generation, lowering the power of the higher race, and regressing of physical and intellectual humans ultimately resulting in sickness. Hitler’s purpose is to persuade his audience that different ethnicities should not produce offspring in order to follow the law of nature, or at least his observations of nature’s consequences. While imprisoned for five years in the Landsberg Prison, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf,