Hitler's Vision and Mein Kampf

Hitler's Vision and Mein Kampf

1. The Führer

   • Strength lay in total loyalty to the leader (The Führer)
   • Debate and discussion produced democratic weakness

2. National Socialism

   • Loyalty to Germany
   • Racial purity and equality
   • State control of the economy
   • Propaganda would win Germans over to Nazi ways of thinking

3. Lebensraum (living space)

   • Germany needed to expand its territory
   • Mainly at the expense of Russia and Poland

4. Racial Purity

   • Aryans (white Europeans) were the 'master race'
     • Aryan people would get the best jobs and be encouraged to have children
   • All other races - especially the Jews - were inferior
   • Homosexuals, the mentally ill, and the physically disabled should be imprisoned or killed

5. Armed Force

   • War and struggle essential part of healthy development of the Aryan race
   • Nazis would destroy the USSR and communism
   • Armed forces would be built up

6. Economic Strength

   • Build up German industries for war
   • Nazis would get the unemployed working
   • Make Germany an autarky (a country which is economically independent or self-sufficient)

7. National Community

   • All Germans would out the needs of the state above everything else