Volksgemeinschaft

=DEFINITION= The belief that loyalty to the state is more important than any other loyalty; people should feel bound together by blood as a single community.

SIGNIFICANCE
This shows the structuralist POV because the Treaty of Versailles separated the German people into different states (political condition). Hitler's desire to unite all people of the German race and create a sense of national community ("pan-German") appealed to those who felt like they were stripped of a national identity following the war. This increased support from people who agreed with Hitler.