# Immanuel Kant and Nazism

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/excursions/immanuel-kant-and-nazism>

**By** George H. Smith

**Published:** June 6, 2018

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Was Kant somehow responsible for the rise of Nazism? Smith explores two points of view on this issue.

Was Kant somehow responsible for the rise of Nazism? Smith explores two points of view on this issue.

[Originally published in essay form on February 5, 2016](https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/immanuel-kant-nazism)