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GRMN 2301: INSIDE NAZI GERMANY FINAL
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GRMN 2301: INSIDE NAZI GERMANY FINALNSDAP - Answers-National Socialist Deutsch (German) Workers' Party (1920-1945)
Hitler becomes Chancellor - Answers-in January 30, 1933.
But, National Socialist ideas were around earlier:
- WWI (1914-1918)
- The Treaty of Versailles
Tenets of Nazism - Answers-Anti-Semitism, Lebensraum, Nationalism, Leadership
Principle, Social Darwinism, Pan-Germanism, Anti-Communism
Anti-Semitism - Answers-The hatred of Jews based on the notion of race or religion.
According to Hitler, the survival of the racial German identity was dependent on the
exclusion or extermination of the Jews. (Hitler further claimed that the Jews are conspiring
to keep this master race from rightfully ruling the world, by diluting its racial and cultural
purity and by convincing the Aryan to believe in equality rather than superiority and
inferiority)
"Lebensraum" (Living Space) - Answers-The territory a nation believes is needed for its
natural development and survival. Nazi Germany believed themselves, the Aryans, the
superior class and in need of taking over Eastern Europe for living space.
Regeneration of the Nation - Answers-The creation of a new "People's Community" after
the humiliation of WWI and the economic depression.
- The idea was that the institutions of state, society and culture would be remodeled to
make a racially homogenous nation involved in making Germany great again.
Necessity for Violence - Answers-Violence was needed in the struggle to achieve all of
these goals
Pan-Germanism - Answers-The unification of the German people in one nation under the
leadership of one man (Fuhrer).
Mein Kampf: Hitler and the "Power of the Idea" - Answers-- Program of Mein Kampf:
Overcoming differences and creating a reconciled German state and community based
on race
- Overcoming Marxism (Communism)
a. The Jewish question and Marxism blends into one
b. Hitler doesn't like Marxism because it has an international plane: wants the workers of
all countries to unite. Hitler wanted to focus solely on the German workers. The
international view weakens the national integrity of every individual country (and the Jews
, supported this international vision). Hitler saw the Jews as the pure driving force of these
aims to weaken individual nationality
Main Concepts of Mein Kampf - Answers-1) The Jewish Peril
2) Anti-Semitism
3) Lebensraum
4) Leader-figure (Fuhrer)
5) The artist as a creative genius (Political)
6) Personality and the folkish state
7) Nation and Race
8) The power of the spoken word
The Jewish Peril - Answers-An alleged Jewish conspiracy to gain world leadership. Hitler
described the struggle for world domination as an ongoing racial, cultural, and political
battle between Aryans and Jews.
Anti-Semitism in Mein Kampf - Answers-Hitler further claimed that the Jews are
conspiring to keep this master race from rightfully ruling the world, by diluting its racial
and cultural purity and by convincing the Aryan to believe in equality rather than
superiority and inferiority
Fuhrer - Answers-Hitler believed that only the genius had the answers to guide Germany.
He could have advisors, but only one man must make the decisions. He did not like the
parliamentary government and wanted to bring it down. This also ties in with the i dea of
the artist/creative genius
The Artist as a Creative Genius (Artist & Dictator) - Answers-- "The Sculptor of Germany:"
Hitler (artist, genius) first smashes Jewish artwork (dichotomy) and then creates a unified
Germany (sculpture)
a. Molding the masses (substance) to shape it into one whole, united
b. Artist-dictator
c. Smashing = necessary means of violence to create ideology
d. Destructing v. Constructing: violence is needed in the artist-dictator's shaping of the
masses (you cannot create or shape a vision without taking away clay/being violent)
Social Darwinism - Answers-A modern name given to various theories of society which
claim to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to
sociology and politics. This was Hitler's way of justifying his entire ideology, because it
was "Natural Law"
Alienation - Answers-Because of the industrial revolution and urbanization of the time, the
German people were alienated from the struggle for existence/the true meaning of life.
Führerprinzip - Answers-The unification of the people under the leadership of one man
Volksgemeinschaft - Answers-Eliminating the social classes and being just one people.
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