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A-LEVEL HISTORY NOTES CAMBRIDGE 9489/4 Hitler's Nazi Germany NAZI IDEOLOGY Nazism or Nazi Socialism was the ideology and practice of Nazi Party and Nazi Germany. It is a unique variety of fascism that incorporates biological racism and anti-Semitism. Nazism was founded by elements of the far right racist Germany Nationalist. The ideology was developed by Anton Drexler and then Hitler adopted it as a means to draw workers away from communism to nationalism. Initially Nazi political strategy focused on anti-big business, anti-bourgeoisie and anti-capitalist policies though other aspects were later played in the 1930s to gain support from the industrial owners of the Nazis. Nazism promoted political violence. It conceived politics being a battle and Nazis utilised their paramilitary organizations the Storm Troopers for violent attacks upon their opponents such as the communist, Jews, Social democracy as said by Richard Bessel. It promoted territorial expansion in the Eastern Europe to be the lebensraum (Living space) for Germany settlers and assimilations for men Germans into German which would result into the creation of a greater Germany. It supported the supremacy of the Aryan Race and Jews considered as a threat to this group. According to Bendesky (2000) he said that the Nazi considered the Jews as a parasitic infection that attached itself to various ideologies and movements to secure itself, preservations such as capitalism, liberalism, Marxism, democracy and trade communism. It also sought to maintain the Nazi race, the Nazi sought to exterminate the Jews the physically and mentally disabled, homosexuals, blacks, Jehovah's Witness and political opponents. The economic system of the Nazi was based on the cruelty. This was a belief that the Germans should be economically sufficient. The Nazi supported a society with stratified classes based on merit and talent whilst rejecting universal equality. It promoted the ownership of private property and the creation of national solidarity which would supersede class divisions. The Nazi criminalised strikes by employs for being the contrast to National unity. The state took over the process of setting wage and salary levels. It is important to note that the economic policy of Nazism was anti-communism. Communism was regarded as dangerous because of the principle to dissolve private property, it support of class conflict, its aggression to middle class, its hostility to small business men and its atheism. …