NAZI IDEOLOGY

Fuhrerprinzip

Leadership principle - total authority “Hitler is Germany and Germany is Hitler” Rudolf Hess, 1934. Cult of Fuhrer

Gleichschaltung

the process of Nazification by which Adolf Hitler—leader of the Nazi Party in Germany—established a system of totalitarian control and coordination over all aspects of German society

Autarky

national self-sufficiency + restoration of economy

Volksgemeinschaft

people’s community - all germans should unite and work together

Lebensraum

the need for living space for the German people - Expanding germany

Social Darwinism

the Aryan race is superior, threatened by Judaism (subhuman)

Nationalism

A strong Germany: the Treaty of Versailles to be abolished

Individual was unimportant

unification of Greater germany - Austria + Germany