The+Early+Years+of+the+Nazis+Vocab

****Anti-Capitalism:** ** "Rejects the economic system based upon private property and profit. Early Nazi ideas laid stress upon preventing the exploitation of workers and suggesting social reforms." ** //**Mein Kampf:**// "'My Struggle'. The book written by Hitler in 1924, which expresses his political ideas." //**F** **ūhrerprinzip:** "'The leadership principle'. Hitler upheld the idea of a one-party state, built on an all-powerful leader." //**//Lebensraum:// // "'Living space'. Hitler's aim to create an empire by establishing German supremacy over the eastern lands in Europe." //****//Volksgemeinschaft://** // "'A people's community'. Nazism stressed the development of a harmonious, socially unified and racially pure community." //**//Gauleiter:// " // Means 'leader of a regional area'. The Nazi Party was organized into 35 regions from 1926." //**//**SS:** ** " **//**// Scutz Staffel //// (protection squad); became known as the Blackshirts, named after the uniform."
 * Anti-Semitism:** "The Hatred of Jews. It became the most significant part of Nazi racist thinking. For Hitler, the 'master race' was the pure Aryan (the people of Northern Europe) and the Germans represented the highest caste. The lowest race for Hitler was the Jews."
 * Volk: "Often translated as 'people', although it tends to suggest a nation with the same ethnic and cultural identities and with a collective sense of belonging."
 * SA:** "//Sturm Abeilung,// became known in English as the Stormtroopers. They were also referred to as the Brownshirts after the colour of the uniform. They supported the radical socialist aspects of Nazism** ." **
 * Social Darwinism:** "A philosophy that portrayed the world as a 'struggle' between people, races, and nations. Hitler viewed war as the highest form of 'struggle' and was deeply influenced by the theory of evolution based on natural selection."
 * Aryan: "**Broadly refers to all the peoples of the Indo-European family. However, the term was more specifically defined by the Nazis as the non-Jewish people."

All Definitions Taken From: Layton, Geoff. //// Weimar and the Rise of Nazi Germany. //// 3rd edition. London. Hodder, 2005. //**