Consequences of Nazism - Racism

Racism

After the world viewed the Nazi death camps, many Western peoples began to outwardly oppose ideas of racial superiority. Liberal anti-racism became a staple of many Western governments. Whereas racism is still present, openly racist publications were looked down upon. The social progression towards tolerance of different cultures in Western societies has continued to the present day. Although figures such as Martin Luther King, Jr. had a profound effect on anti-racism in the West, the effect of the Holocaust, particularly the Jewish death toll during World War II was much more profound. Since the collapse of Nazi Germany, Western populations have been wary of racial political parties and have actively discouraged white ethnocentrism, or indeed any ethnocentrism, fearing the return of a catastrophe similar to the purges carried out by Nazis in Germany. The Anti-German sentiment from the war also increased, as now the entire German race was viewed as genocidal.