Human progress and racial purity
were equated. He predicted an eventual struggle to the death
between the Jewish and the Teutonic races. The Germans, he
believed, would emerge victorious. Through the survival of the
fittest and the destruction of the weak, mankind would reach a
higher stage of evolution. Although Nazi racist thought was
concerned almost exclusively with the conflict between the
Germans and the Jews, it was clear that the Negro race was, if
anything, consigned to an even lower level of importance than the
Jews. In the survival of the fittest, Negroes were also destined
for extermination in the name of human progress.
Afro-American suspicions about the nature of Mussolini's
imperialism proved to be justified when Italy invaded Ethiopia.
Mussolini's dream of reviving Roman glory included rebuilding a
powerful empire. However, underdeveloped countries which were not
already dominated by European nations and which could easily be
colonized, were few in number. When Italy invaded Ethiopia, Afro-
Americans saw it as another white nation subjugating another
black nation.
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