state-idea

Updated: May 28, 2025

With regard to the relation between the party and the state, Neesse writes: The NSDAP is not a structure which stands under direct state control, to which single tasks of public administration are entrusted by the state, but it holds and maintains is claim to totality as the "bearer of the German state-idea" in all fields relating to the community regardless of how various single functions are divided between the organization of the party and the organization of the state.

Various - Readings on Fascism and National Socialism : Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado