Nazi Antisemitism under Hitler

It is a difficult task to distinguish fact from fallacy as far as the appearance and reality of Nazism is concerned. It is even more difficult to figure out how such a movement could have succeeded as it did. From the very beginning, the ideology of national socialism was "characterized by intellectual chaos, a frightening lack of foundation, and moral perversion."1 What began as an anticapitalistic campaign soon turned into an antimaterialistic one.