The Führerprinzip was the basis of executive authority in the government of Nazi Germany. It placed Adolf Hitler's word above all written law, and meant that government policies, decisions, and offici
Official poster from the Wochenspruch der NSDAP series, 16 February 1941. The inscription reads: "The Führer is always right".
The Führerprinzip allowed Hitler, Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels, and Rudolf Hess to politically purge the Nazi Party on the Night of the Long Knives in the summer of 1934.
At trial in Israel in 1961, the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann said that the Führerprinzip excused his actions because he was obeying superior orders.
National Socialism, commonly known as Nazism is the far-right, ultranationalist, racist, totalitarian ideology associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. It emerged in Germany during Hitler's ri
Führerprinzip
…gave Hitler totalitarian power over the ideology and policies of his political party; this form of personal dictatorship was a basic characteristic of Nazism. The state itself received "political authority" from Hitler, and the Führerprinzip stipulated that only what the Führer "commands, allows, or does not…
The Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler (here pictured in 1938) titled himself Führer and ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945.
Nazis alongside members of the far-right reactionary and monarchist German National People's Party (DNVP) during the brief NSDAP–DNVP alliance in the Harzburg Front from 1931 to 1932
Members of the Nazi Party can be seen seated in the Reichstag in the left foreground, the far-right seats from the speakers point of view.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte, one of the fathers of German nationalism