Hitler's Aims

Question 1

what were Hitler’s main aims?

Answer 1

Volk, Racial Germany, Strong Germany

Question 1

what was volkgemeinschaft?

Answer 1

national community open to all “Aryan” Germans, regardless of class, region, or religion

Question 2

what did the aim of the ‘volk’ mean?

Answer 2

• people’s own lives less important than the country
• loyalty to volk, fuhrer and germany
• other claims on loyalty removed eg family
• no free speech or thinking

Question 3

what did the aim of a ‘racial germany’ mean?

Answer 3

• it was women’s national duty to produce racially ‘pure’ children
• sterilisation and social darwinism
• removing ‘undesirables’
• believed many problems caused by impure aryans
• aryan domination

Question 4

what was lebensraum?

Answer 4

the territory which a group, state, or nation believes is needed for its natural development - expanding east

Question 5

what was autarky?

Answer 5

economic independence, self sufficiency

Question 6

what did a ‘strong germany’ look like in hitler’s aims?

Answer 6

• global power
• racial future
• lebensraum
• autarky - restore prosperity and rearm
• stronger leadership to overturn ToV