Abstract

Analyzes the ideology of National Socialism based on the examination of a multitude of publications from the first party program (1920) and Hitler's "Mein Kampf" to Nazi accession to power in 1933. Argues that Nazi views on the economy, the political system, and culture were eclectic, unsystematic, and sometimes inconsistent. These, however, were at the periphery of the ideology; what bound them together into a unified system was their centeredness on a delusional antisemitism and a phobic anti-Bolshevism. The phantom of the Jew as the archenemy of the German race underlay all the other elements of National Socialist ideology and was its identifying mark.