Power through unity was furthered through the actions of an expansive state apparatus that used laws, decrees, propaganda, concentration camps, and violence to create the racially pure and nationally dominant German Reich (empire). According to fascism, individuals are not equal by birth (or nature) and should not be equal under the laws. To the contrary, individuals are divided by natural abilities and social worth, and society should be arranged hierarchically to reflect the differences between ‘‘naturally superior’’ and ‘‘naturally inferior’’ groups. Hitler added a psycho sadistic element to fascist elitist ideology by proclaiming that the average person not only had an obligation to submit to the elites but actually desired to be dominated by them. Non elites achieved gratification from being ruled by domineering masters, Hitler …show more content…
people identified as disabled by physicians at state hospitals were shipped to special facilities and killed by tablets, injections, or gas. For Hitler, the society, represented by the state, is a separate entity with a life or existence at once different from, and greater than, the life of any individual. He expresses this ‘folkish’ state in his book Mein Kampf,“Thus, the highest purpose of a folkish state is concern for the preservation of those original racial elements which bestow culture and create the beauty and dignity of a higher humanity.” ‘This folkish state is a racial state; only the members of the true Aryan race may participate, but they participate only in the sense of giving of themselves to the state.They do not govern.The folkish state, then, is a state based on racial purity and on ideas of soil—myths of racial content connected with the particular history of the German nation. Here race and nationalism, blood and soil, are