Volksgemeinschaft is a German expression meaning "people's community", "folk community", "national community", or "racial community", depending on the translation of its component term Volk. This expr
Richard Walther Darré addressing a meeting of the farming community in Goslar on 13 December 1937 standing in front of a Reichsadler and Swastika crossed with a sword and wheat ear labelled Blood and Soil (from the German Federal Archive)
1934 poster, translated People's Health, Volksgemeinschaft, Protection of Children, Protection of Mothers, Combating Begging, Care for Hikers are the tasks of National Socialist People's Welfare: Become a Member.
Hitler Youth at rifle practice, c. 1933
The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party, was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism. Its
Volksgemeinschaft
…People's Party (DVP), with the new names intended partly as references to Volksgemeinschaft. The concept was notoriously embraced by the newly founded Nazi Party in the 1920s, and eventually became strongly associated with Nazism after Adolf Hitler's rise to power. In the Nazi vision of Volksgemeinschaft, society…
Mein Kampf in its first edition cover
Nazis during the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich
Adolf Hitler (standing) delivers a speech on the occasion of the refoundation of the NSDAP in February of 1925. Next to him from the perspective of the onlooker: On the right: Gregor Strasser and Heinrich Himmler. On the left: Franz Xaver Schwarz, Walter Buch and Alfred Rosenberg. Behind Hitler the Blutfahne (blood-flag), a central relique within the propaganda of the National-Socialists, can be seen attached to the wall.