Mein Kampf

Question 1

What is ‘Mein Kampf’?

Answer 1

Hitler wrote a book entitled Mein Kampf, meaning ‘My Struggle’.
In it he set out main Nazi beliefs.

Question 2

What was National Socialism?

Answer 2

Stood for loyalty to Germany, racial purity, equality and state control of the economy.

Question 3

Racism in Nazi beliefs?

Answer 3

The Aryans (white Europeans) were the Master Race. All otehr races were inferior especially the Jews.

Question 4

What did Hitler believe about the Armed Force?

Answer 4

That war and struggle were an essential part of a development of a healthy Aryan race if Germany was to be great again. Therefore the Treaty of Versailles must be overthrown.

Question 5

Living space (Lebensraum)

Answer 5

Germany needed to expand as its people were hemmed in. This expansion would be mainly at the expense of Russia and Ploand in the East, by war if necessary.

Question 6

The Fuhrer

Answer 6

Hitler believed Germany needed a dictator to lead it to greatness.

Question 7

Communism

Answer 7

It is evil because it is international. Communism stood for everything that Hitler did not like.