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Nazi Party Beliefs
- Hitler was in prison from 1923 - 1924 (9 months). Here he wrote his
autobiography Mein Kampf, which outlined most of his political beliefs.
- Nationalism
- Broke restrictions on Germany in
the Treaty of Versailles
- Revived the power
of Germany
- Made Germany self-sufficient,
not dependent on imports from
abroad
- Expanded Germany's
boarders
- Purified the
German 'race'
- Socialism
- Like communists, Hitler
wanted to control big
businesses
- Communists wanted to place all
private land and businesses in the
hands of the workers. Hitler didn't
support this form of socialism
- To him, socialism meant
running the economy in the
national interest so that:
- Both argriculture and industry would flourish
- Businesses wouldn't
make unfair profits
- Jews couldn't
control businesses
- Workers would
be treated fairly
- Totalitarianism
- Hitler despised democracy. He
said it was weak
- He believed in Furherprinzip (leadership principle): total
loyalty to leader. - Leader could organise every aspect
of society for the benefit of German people
- Traditional German Values
- He wanted the return of: Strong family
values, with clear male and female roles
- Christian morality
- old-style German
culture, with traditional
art, music and theatre
- Struggle
- Germany should struggle: Outside her
borders, against other countries, for land
- to get living space, so that all German
people could live together, united
- Inside her borders, against non-German
people, so that they could strengthen the
true German race
- Racial Purity
- Hitler said people were divided
into superior and inferior races
- The Aryans were the superior
race - German people of northern
Europe, who, he said, had
produced all that was good in
human culture
- Inferior races - eastern
Europe, Asia and Africa
- lowest form of life - Jews,
described as parasites who
fed off the countries they
lived in