Today I will be discussing with you, the idea of Volksgemeinschaft or national socialism, and the politics behind this Nazi belief. Volksgemeinschaft was an attempt by the German Nazi party to establish a national community of unified mind, will and spirit. It was the desire to establish a total state where the interests of the individual were strictly subordinate. As Hitler said in a speech made in October 1933, "National socialism, desires to safeguard the volk, …showed first 75 words of 500 total…

…showed last 75 words of 500 total…to the German people as it promised equality stability. National Socialism saw itself not only as a political movement, but as a world view too and I agree that a lot of Germans thought of it this way. They let Nazism become a part of their way of living and that is why Hitler had so much control over the German people, because of the goal of creating Volksgemeinschaft in the organization of German society.