Nazism, ideological or not? This is a very important question when looking into the rise of Hitler and how he used his so-called ‘ideologies’ to win over the support of the German people. The dictionary definition of the word ‘Ideology’ is ‘Ideas that form the basis of a political or economic theory’, from this we should be able to weigh the evidence to see if the Nazis ideas about political and economic system form an …showed first 75 words of 1631 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1631 total…Even the imperialism of Lebensraum had already found expression in the programme of ‘Germanisation’ supported by those writers who saw the German racer as some how superior. This growing support for the Volk had also gone hand in hand with the development ! of racist ideas, and in particular of anti-Semitism. Thus, even before Hitler and other leading Nazis were born, the core of what would become Nazism was already current in political circles. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**