Editing Nazi Germany (section)

=== Ideology ===
{{Main|Nazism}}
The Nazis were a far-right [[fascist]] political party which arose during the social and financial upheavals that occurred following the end of World War I.{{sfn|Spielvogel|2016|p=1}} The Party remained small and marginalised, receiving 2.6% of the federal vote in 1928, prior to the onset of the Great Depression in 1929.{{sfn|Evans|2005|pp=6–9}} By 1930 the Party won 18.3% of the federal vote, making it the Reichstag's second largest political party.{{sfn|Kershaw|2008|p=204}} While in prison after the failed [[Beer Hall Putsch]] of 1923, Hitler wrote ''[[Mein Kampf]]'', which laid out his plan for transforming German society into one based on race.{{sfn|Kershaw|2008|pp=146–147}} Nazi ideology brought together elements of antisemitism, [[racial hygiene]], and [[eugenics]], and combined them with [[pan-Germanism]] and territorial expansionism with the goal of obtaining more ''Lebensraum'' for the Germanic people.{{sfn|Evans|2008|p=7}}

The regime attempted to obtain this new territory by attacking Poland and the Soviet Union, intending to mass-murder or deport the Jews and [[Slavs]] living there, who it viewed as being inferior to the Aryan [[master race]] and part of a [[Jewish Bolshevism|Jewish-Bolshevik]] conspiracy.{{sfn|Bendersky|2007|p=161}}{{sfn|Gellately|1996|pp=270–274}} The Nazi regime believed that only Germany could defeat the forces of Bolshevism and save humanity from world domination by [[International Jewry]].{{sfn|Bytwerk|1998}} Other people deemed [[life unworthy of life]] by the Nazis included the mentally and physically disabled, [[Romani people]], [[Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust|homosexuals]], [[Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany|Jehovah's Witnesses]], and social misfits.{{sfn|Longerich|2010|p=49}}{{sfn|Evans|2008|p=759}} Additionally, [[Freemasonry|Freemasons]] were [[Anti-Masonry#Nazi Germany and occupied Europe|heavily monitored and persecuted]].{{sfn|Bergen|2016|pp=36–37}}

Influenced by the [[Völkisch movement#Influence on Nazism|''Völkisch'' movement]], the regime was against cultural [[modernism]] and supported the development of an extensive military at the expense of intellectualism.{{sfn|Kershaw|2008|p=81}}{{sfn|Evans|2005|pp=7, 443}} Creativity and art were stifled, except where they could serve as propaganda media.{{sfn|Evans|2005|pp=210–211}} The party used symbols such as the [[Blutfahne|Blood Flag]] and rituals such as the [[Nuremberg Rally|Nazi Party rallies]] to foster unity and bolster the regime's popularity.{{sfn|Evans|2005|pp=121–122}}