Nazi Ideology

Nazi Ideology

1. Power of the Will

   • Power, Strength and Determination
     • Hitler personified according to Nazi propaganda
   • Parades and SA
     • Image of discipline, unity and coordination Sweep opponents aside
   • Compromise
     • 'The People's State, will never be created by compromise' He compromised with Catholics, Army and Big Businesses

2. Struggle, Violence and War

   • Weltanscauung
     • World Outlook Struggle and Conflict between races was inevitable, natural
   • Wars means
     • War would reconstruct German society and create a new German Reich but conquest and subjugation of other races
   • Violence
     • Glorified military virtues of courage, loyalty and self-sacrifice
     • SA
       • Projected as an organisation which gave German males the chance to demonstrate their 'manliness'

3. Social Darwinism / Master Race

   • Survival of the fittest
     • Jews, Blacks and Slavs inferior races Herrenvolk 'master race' Northern Europe
   • Racial Purity
     • destiny for Aryans to rule intermarriage and mixing race would undermien Aryans Polluted blood with inferior races

4. Volksgemeinschaft

   • Racial Purity
     • Only Aryans allowed citizenship All others denied citizenship and the benefits that acrused from it Mere 'subjects' of the State
   • 'Real Community'
     • Once non-Aryans were eliminated there would be no social classes and everyone would be equal
   • Greater Good of the Nation
     • Work together for the greater good of the nation demonstrates commitment In return would benefit from employment and welfare benefits
   • Blood and Soil
     • German peasants retained racial purity over everyone else More traditional values than city dwellers

5. National Socialism

   • 1920 Programme
     • Confiscation of war profits
     • Nationalisation of monopoly companies
     • No compensation
       • No compensation for the nationalisation of exportation of land
   • Change in ideas
     • Hitler committed to radical aims and adapted his ideas to the audience he was presenting to
   • Big Business
     • After 1921 Hitler sought backing from big businesses to support his party

6. Anti-Democracy

   • Destroy Weimar
     • November Criminals Treaty of Versailles Authoritarian government encouraged communism

7. Aggressive Nationalism

   • ToV
     • Reverse the humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles Restore lost land
   • 3rd Reich
     • secure Lebensraum to accommadate it's people and provide raw materials