How Did Germany Become By Volksgemeinschaft?

A ‘racially homogenous national community’ , or what was commonly referred to as Volksgemeinschaft, was at the core of Nazi agenda, and the foundation upon which Hitler and the National Socialists sought to bring about their vision of a racist utopia. The Nazi’s sought to reshape society into a system of rule underpinned by racial division and discrimination; the formal exclusion of not only those belonging to “foreign races” in Germany – such as the Jews and the Gypsies – but also included German individuals of “Aryan” race, whom they considered asocial. This included but was not limited to homosexuals, the disabled and mentally ill. This essay argues that Germany had become by 1939, to a great extent, a racial state. Nazi radicalism had