Nazism and Bolshevism drew their conquest programs from Pan-Germanism and Pan-Slavism

Evidence

NAZISM AND BOLSHEVISM owe more to Pan-Germanism and Pan-Slavism (respectively) than to any other ideology or political movement. This is most evident in foreign policies, where the strategies of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia have followed so closely the well-known programs of conquest outlined by the pan-movements before and during the first World War that totalitarian aims have frequently been mistaken for the pursuance of some permanent German or Russian interests. While neither Hitler nor Stalin has ever acknowledged his debt to imperialism in the development of his methods of rule, neither has hesitated to admit his indebtedness to the pan-movements’ ideology or to imitate their slogans. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 569

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the Islamophobia module’s genealogy concern — tracing Nazism’s ideological lineage back to the pan-movements gives a concrete ancestor for later readings on racialized European nationalism.