Nazi Ideology

Question 1

Nationalism: Nazi aims?

Answer 1

• Break restrictions on Germany in the treaty of V
• Revive the power of Germany
• Make Germany self-sufficient, not dependant on imports
• Expand Germany’s borders (lebensraum)
• Purify the German ‘race’

Question 2

Struggle: what were the two types of struggle? Why did they benefit countries?

Answer 2

• Outside Germany, battle for land (lebensraum)
• Inside Germany, against non-German people

Caused countries and people to get healthier and fitter due to the struggles (Social Darwinism)

Question 3

Totalitarianism: why wad Fuhrerprinzip better than democracy in Hitler’s view?

Answer 3

He could organise every aspect of society for the benefit of the German people (and total loyalty)

Question 4

Racial Purity: who were the ‘superior’ race? Who were the inferior races?

Answer 4

The Aryan race, the Germanic people of northern Europe, blond hair, blue eyes

Slavs, Africans/Asians, Jews (considered ‘sub-human’)

Question 5

Socialism: why different to Communism? What did Socialism mean to Hitler?

Answer 5

Communists wanted to take all private land and businesses, but Hitler supported capitalism

To Hitler, socialism meant running the economy in the national interest so that:

• agriculture and industry would flourish
• workers treated fairly
• businesses would not make unfair profits
• Jews could not control businesses

Question 6

Traditional German Values: Hitler wanted to return to what three things? Why did he think these things had been weakened during the Weimar Rep (especially from 1924-29)?

Answer 6

• Strong family values (clear make/female roles)
• Christian morality
• Old style German culture (and traditional art/music etc)

Too much influence (African/Asian), ‘avant-garde’/modernist, more leisure spending/indulgence