To what extent do you consider that Hitler and the Nazi's had achieved their aim social revolution and unity [volksgemeinschaft] by 1939? A vision of Hitler and the Nazi's was to establish and create a new social order, or a volksgemeinschaft. With volk meaning people and gemeinscaft a tightly bound rural community, together there were the people's community, which was a romanticised and anti-urbanised image. Membership of this community was for the 'pure' Germans only this …
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…the idea of a social revolution is without substance. The Nazism was not social revolution but social reaction of the worse kind since it reinforced traditional class alignment and destroyed the racially undesirable. Volksgemeinschaft was on the whole mealy a propaganda gimmick as in reality propaganda and severe repression concealed deep social divisions and sources of serious discontent. The significantly modified nature of the Nazi social revolution prevented the realisation of many of its aims.