Germanness during the Third Reich, was defined by its “social outsiders”; equating Hitler’s notion of threat against Germany’s way of life. Often, anyone that posed a dangerous opposition to the ideal German citizen of the Aryan race with attributes of “hard work, cleanliness, and sobriety” (Gellately pg. 56, befell hardship. These groups of “social outsiders”, the Jews or those “who could not follow dominate social values” (Gellately pg. 56), shaped Hitler’s dream of cultural unity. The “perfect” German identity, constructed through a meaning of what it was not; included “othered” groups of related contrasting religious affiliations, unnatural sexual orientations, and competing political views.