Nazi Ideology

Question 1

Volkisch Nationalism

Answer 1

The rise of German “volk” or people and desire for a homogenous population excluding foreigners

Question 2

Volksgemeinschaft

Answer 2

“People’s Community” was used to unite people across class divides for national unity

Question 3

Aryan - Race and Lebensraum

Answer 3

Social darwinism and stated that Germans belonged to the Aryan race and thus were entitled to lebensraum
Lebensraum- “living space” Hitler’s ambition for territorial expansion to allow for national existence and autarky (economic self-sufficiency)

Question 4

Anti-semitism

Answer 4

• prejudice and anti-jewish Nazi laws and prejudice would come after Nazi rise to power

Question 5

Blut und Boden

Answer 5

• “Blood and Soil”
• nationalist slogan expressing Nazi ideals of a racially defined national body united with a settlement area.

Question 6

Fuhrerprinzip

Answer 6

• the basis of executive authority in the government of Nazi Germany
• meant that the word of the Fuhrer is above written law and secured Hitlers control over the army and combined armed forces

Question 7

Supremacy of the State

Answer 7

The individuals make sacrifices for the state

Question 8

Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer

Answer 8

central Nazi slogan “one people, one realm, one leader” fostered unity and nationalism

Question 9

Weltanschauung

Answer 9

Nazi/Hitler worldview encompasses all aspects