I recently read an excerpt from Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler. The excerpt is entitled Nation and Race, and it deals with Hitler’s own thoughts about racial superiority and races in general. While this paper is very well written, it is full of ideas that many people in the present would not agree with. It also has several literary fallacies which can leave readers with more questions than answers if they do not understand the premise of what Hitler is saying.

In paragraph 6 of Nation and race (1925), Hitler uses the analogy “The fox is always a fox, the goose a goose… and the difference can lie at most in the varying measure of force, strength… of the individual specimens. But you will never find a fox who in his inner attitude might, for example, show humanitarian tendencies toward geese, as similarly there is no cat with a friendly inclination toward mice.” This is an example of a false analogy. He uses the laws of nature to directly apply the animal world …show more content…
Even though the fact that the inferiors would multiply more rapidly than the best because they are more numerous is not proven, Hitler assumes that the readers will accept this fact and come to the conclusion he is proposing. There is no evidence that the weaker members of society would propagate to the point of driving the stronger, more dominant members to the margins of society, however, there are other factors which would affect the population, such as environmental, socioeconomic, and political conditions. Hitler is planting the idea in people’s minds that action must be taken to prevent domination by inferior