How far did Hitler succeed in creating a Volksgemeinschaft between 1933-39?

... Matthew Watson 13Bh How far did Hitler succeed in creating a Volksgemeinschaft between 1933-39? Volksgemeinschaft essentially means National Community. Hitler wanted all ethnic Germans who were genetically pure to come together into one Community to be the superior dominating race in the world. Those in Germany, who were not ethnically German, possessed communist, homosexual, Jewish or Romany values would be excluded from this community Put in concentration camps removed from any high office and discriminated against. Volksgemeinschaft also involved a sense of hyper-Nationalism and racism in that Hitler wanted people to believe that they should be proud to be part of the Volksgemeinschaft and wanted people to be predigest against those who were not as racially pure or genetically superior. For the National Community idea to work Hitler needed to heal the divisions in society that Democracy had caused in June 1933 the Nazi party started the Reinhardt programme which aimed via a series

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