Nazi Party Beliefs

Question 1

What was the name of Hitler’s autobiography (which was also a manifesto of his political beliefs)?

Answer 1

Mein Kampf

Question 2

What did the Nazis believe by ‘nationalism’?

Answer 2

• Making Germany great again
• breaking restrictions of ToV
• making Germany self-sufficient (autarky)
• expanding Germany’s borders (Lebensraum)
• purifying the German race

Question 3

What did Hitler want to control?

Answer 3

Big businesses

Question 4

What was controlling big businesses known as?

Answer 4

Socialism

Question 5

How did socialism differ from communism in Hitler’s view?

Answer 5

Communists wanted to put all private land and businesses in the hands of workers.

Hitler wanted to run businesses in the national interest (his version of socialism)

Question 6

What did the Nazis believe by totalitarianism?

Answer 6

• That the Nazi Party should control every aspect of life
• Democracy was a weak form of government
• Hitler believed in Fuhrerprinzip (leadership principle). This meant total loyalty to the leader.

Question 7

What ‘traditional values’ did Hitler believe in?

Answer 7

• Strong family values with clear male and female roles
• Christian morality
• traditional German art, music and theatre

Question 8

What did Hitler belief life was?

Answer 8

A contest - survival of the fittest

Question 9

What did Hitler believe about racial purity?

Answer 9

• Aryans were the superior race who had produced all that was good about human culture
• Other races, from places like eastern Europe (for example, the Slavs) and Africa and Asia, were inferior
• Jews were the lowest form of life (parasites who fed off the countries they lived in)