Volksgemeinschaft

Question 1

What does Volksgemeinschaft mean?

Answer 1

The idea of creating a folk community

Question 2

QUOTE:

What did McDonough say it romanticised?

Answer 2

“It romanticised Germany’s medieval past”

Question 3

What was Volks a way to exclude?

Answer 3

It was a way to exclude Jews, Blacks, Gypsies and disabled people

Question 4

How was Hitler going to “transform” German society through Volks?

Answer 4

The new society would be racially pure

Question 5

What were the 3 principles central to the idea of Volksgemeinschaft?

Answer 5

1. The principle of putting the common good before their own selfish interests
2. The principle of racial purity- only pure German citizens were allowed to live in the Volksgemeinschaft
3. The principle of struggle - the idea that Germans would have to commit all their energy into rebuilding Germany’s glorious past

Question 6

What had to practically be done for the Volksgemeinschaft to be created?

Answer 6

Extending Germany’s borders so that the German National Community would be populated by only German people

Question 7

Who were idealized as the model German citizens that others should try to emulate and why?

Answer 7

Peasants, because the majority of Germany’s citizens are working class and Hitler wanted to target the majority