Difference Between Fuehrer And Volksgemeinschaft

The "Fuehrer" (leader) and the "Volksgemeinschaft" (national community) were the central lies created by Hitler and the Third Reich. In Hitler's world view the Germans were a genetic group of people unified through the "Bluterbe", the common bloodlines of their forefathers. In order to achieve this inner unity - politically as well as socially - class distinctions, social rank, and group interests were to be shed and the rights of the individual, secondary to the interests of the community and nation. The Volksgemeinschaft philosophy was based on the so called "revolutionary and modern" racial doctrine. These ideas were that the Germans were the leading people of the "Aryan race", to be esteemed as the most superior race on earth. Hitler considered