Volksgemeinschaft

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Volksgemeinschaft was a Nazi ideological concept envisioning a racially unified, classless “people’s community” that subordinated individual interests to those of the German nation.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi ideological concept
political ideology
propaganda concept
sociopolitical concept
associatedWith Führerprinzip
German ethnic nationalism
antisemitism
racial purity
völkisch nationalism
contrastedWith Marxist class struggle
liberal individualism
coreIdea abolition of class conflict within the German people
exclusion of those defined as racially or politically alien
fusion of people, state, and leader
racially unified people’s community
subordination of individual interests to the nation
countryOfOrigin Germany
emergedFrom völkisch movement of late 19th and early 20th century
excludes Jews
Roma and Sinti
linked to: Roma people

homosexuals persecuted by the regime
people with disabilities targeted by Nazi policies
political opponents
so‑called asocials
goal elimination of political pluralism
integration of racially defined German Volksgenossen
legitimation of dictatorship
mobilization of society for war
ideology Nazism
implementedThrough Gleichschaltung
Nazi welfare programs
mass organizations of the Nazi state
influencedBy German Romantic nationalism
racial theory
social Darwinism
justified eugenic policies
persecution
racial laws
social exclusion
language German
literalMeaning people’s community
promotedIn Hitler Youth
League of German Girls
linked to: Hitler Youth

Nazi cultural policy
Nazi propaganda
Nazi welfare organizations
timePeriod Nazi era
linked to: Third Reich
usedBy Adolf Hitler
Joseph Goebbels
National Socialist German Workers' Party
linked to: Nazi Party

Nazi Party

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Beauty of Labour associatedWithPolicy Volksgemeinschaft