Ch.+6+Key+Terms

//**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.
 * Anti-Semitism:** The hatred of Jews. It became the most significant part of Nazi Racist thinking. For Hitler, the "master race" was pure Aryan and the Germans represented the highest caste. The lowest race for Hitler was the Jews.
 * Anti-Capitalism:** Rejects the system based upon private property and profit. Early Nazi ideas laid stress upon preventing the exploitation of workers and suggesting social reforms.
 * SA:** aka Sturm Abteilung, became known in English as the Stormtroopers. They were also referred to as the Brownshirts after the colour of their uniform. They supported the radical socialist aspects of Nazism.
 * Mein Kampf:** 'My Struggle'. Hitler's book in 1924. It expressed his political ideas.
 * Social Darwinism:** A philosophy that portrayed the world as "a struggle people, races, and nations." Hitler viewed the war as the highst form of 'stuggle' and was deeply influenced by the theory of evolution based on natural selection.
 * Aryan:** Broadly refers to the people of the Indo-European family. However, used more specifically by the Nazis as non-Jewish people.
 * Fuhrerprinzip:** '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 of Europe.
 * Volksgemeinschaft:** 'A peoples 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.
 * SS:** Schutz Staffel (Protecton Squad); became known as the Blackshirts.