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Chapter 6 Vocab

o 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 and German’s represented the highest caste o 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 o Anti-Capitalism: rejects the economic system based upon private property and profit. Early Nazi ideas laid the stress upon preventing the exploitation of workers and suggesting social reforms. o SA: Sturn Abteilung became known in English as the storm troopers, supported radical socialist aspects of Nazism o Mein Kampf: “My struggle”, book written by Hitler in 1924, which expresses his political ideas o Social Darwinism: a philosophy that portrayed the world as a “struggle” between people, races, and nations o Aryan: broadly refers to all the peoples of the Into-European family; non-Jewish o Lebensraum: “living space”. Hitler’s aim to create an empire by establishing German supremacy over the eastern lands in Europe o Gauleiter: “leader of a regional area” the Nazi Party organized into 35 regions o SS: Schutz Staffel (protection squad); became known as the Black shirts (uniform) o Volksgemeinschaft: “a people’s community” Nazism stressed the development of a harmonious pure community o Fuhrerprinzip: “leadership principle” Hitler upheld the idea of one-party state, built on an all-power leader