Although neither the Nazi Party nor Hitler himself had a cohesive architectural policy before they came to power in 1933, Nazi writers like Wilhelm Frick and Alfred Rosenberg had already labeled the Bauhaus " un-German " and criticized its modernist styles, deliberately generating public controversy over issues like flat roofs.

But the Third Reich's foreign policy had forced the Nazi state into war before it had fully prepared.

However, with the rising threat from Nazi Germany, and the ineffectiveness of the League of Nations, this policy lost credibility.

In Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany both pursued territorial expansionist and interventionist foreign policy agendas from the 1930s through the 1940s culminating in World War II.

Nazi Germany's aggressive foreign policy took control of Austria and parts of Czechoslovakia, and its invasion of Poland initiated the Second World War.

* Racial policy of Nazi Germany

Despite his aping of Fascism, and the strong economic ties with resurgent Nazi Germany, Metaxas followed a policy of neutrality, given Greece's traditionally strong ties to Britain, reinforced by King George II's personal anglophilia.

The Dienststelle Ribbentrop, which had its offices directly across from the Foreign Office's building on the Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin, had in its membership a collection of Hitlerjugend alumni, dissatisfied businessmen, former reporters, and ambitious Nazi Party members, all of whom tried to conduct a foreign policy independent of, and often contrary to, the Foreign Office.

The German historian Klaus Hildebrand argued that besides Hitler's foreign policy programme, there were three other factions within the Nazi Party who had alternative foreign policy programmes, whom Hildebrand dubbed the agrarians, the revolutionary socialists, and the Wilhelmine Imperialists.

Another German diplomatic historian, Wolfgang Michalka argued that there was a fourth alternative Nazi foreign policy programme, and that was Ribbentrop's concept of a Euro-Asiatic bloc comprising the four totalitarian states of Germany, the Soviet Union, Italy and Japan.

It was generally understood that she had been a victim of the Nazi policy of killing " useless eaters " ( Stockhausen 1989a, 20 – 21 ; Kurtz 1992, 19 ).

" Accordingly, it was Nazi stated policy to kill, deport, or enslave the Russian and other Slavic populations and repopulate the land with Germanic peoples ( see New Order ).

Nazi policy aimed to destroy the Soviet Union as a political entity in accordance with the geopolitical Lebensraum idea (" Drang nach Osten ") for the benefit of future generations of the " Nordic Aryan master race ".

The Economist magazine introduced the term in the 1930s in covering Nazi German economic policy ..

The Appeasement policy of Great Britain and France towards Adolf Hitler's annexations of Ruhr, Austria and finally of Czechoslovakia enlarged the might of Nazi Germany and put a threat of war to the Soviet Union.

In August 1939, after another failure of attempts to establish a counter-Nazism alliance with Britain and France, and after Western powers had engaged in the policy of Appeasement with Nazi Germany, the Soviet government finally agreed to establish peaceful relations by concluding the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, pledging non-aggression between the two countries and dividing their spheres of influence in Eastern Europe.

The Antonescu regime played a major role in the Holocaust, following to a lesser extent the Nazi policy of oppression and massacre of the Jews, and Romas, primarily in the Eastern territories Romania recovered or occupied from the Soviet Union ( Transnistria ) and in Moldavia.

Heydrich came to Prague to enforce policy, fight resistance to the Nazi regime, and keep up production quotas of Czech motors and arms that were " extremely important to the German war effort ".

The Nazi party adhered to the policy that a woman's place was in the home, and did not change this even as its opponents began moving women into important roles in production.

The Labor Party meanwhile experienced a split along pro and anti Communist lines over policy towards the Soviet Union for its co-operation with Nazi Germany in the invasion of Poland.

Unlike in the West, the Nazi racial policy encouraged excessive brutality against what it considered to be the " inferior people " of Slavic descent ; most German advances were thus followed by mass executions.

Sweden followed a policy of armed neutrality during World War II ( although thousands of Swedish volunteers fought in the Winter War against the Soviets ); however, it did permit German troops to pass through its territory to and from occupation duties in its neighbour, Norway, and it supplied the Nazi regime with steel and much needed ball-bearings.

Hitler initially protected Röhm from other elements of the Nazi Party which held his homosexuality to be a violation of the party's strong anti-gay policy.

The notion of a contact between Haushofer and the Nazi establishment has been stressed by several authors.

The movement in Germany shared many concerns of similar groups elsewhere, such as the democratisation of society and opposing the Vietnam War, but also stressed more nationally specific issues such as coming to terms with the legacy of the Nazi regime and opposing the German Emergency Acts.

In the same line of thinking Alfred Rosenberg, the Nazi ideologue, stressed the other-worldly, spiritual aspect of Hitler's racial theories: ` The life of a race does not represent a logically-developed philosophy nor even the unfolding of a pattern according to natural law, but rather the development of a mystical synthesis, an activity of soul, which cannot be explained rationally .`

The law and its corollaries would not apply to discussions covering known mainstays of Nazi Germany such as genocide, eugenics or racial superiority, nor, more debatably, to a discussion of other totalitarian regimes or ideologies, if that was the explicit topic of conversation, since a Nazi comparison in those circumstances may be appropriate, in effect committing the fallacist's fallacy.

The prominent Nazi jurist Rudolf Klare argued for the moral superiority of harsh anti-homosexual Teutonic traditions ( such as Germany, England and American states ) over Latin countries ( such as France, Spain, Italy, and Poland ) which no longer punished homosexual acts.

Some National Socialists ( such as Goebbels ) held Spengler as an intellectual precursor but he was ostracised after 1933 for his pessimism about Germany's and Europe's future, his refusal to support Nazi ideas of racial superiority, and his critical work The Hour of Decision.

Since Forster's published descriptions of other nations were seen as impartial scientific observations, Forster's disparaging description of Poland in his letters and diaries was often taken at face value in Imperial and Nazi Germany, where it was used as a means of science-based support for a purported German superiority.

The racial policy of Nazi Germany was a set of policies and laws implemented by Nazi Germany, asserting the superiority of the " Aryan race ", and based on a specific racist doctrine which claimed scientific legitimacy.

Different pseudoarchaeological groups hold a variety of basic assumptions which are typically unscientific: the Nazi pseudoarchaeologists for instance took the cultural superiority of the ancient Aryan race as a basic assumption, whilst Judeo-Christian Fundamentalist pseudoarchaeologists conceive of the Earth as only being 10, 000 years old and Hindu Fundamentalist pseudoarchaeologists believe that the Homo sapiens species is much older than the 100, 000 years old it has been shown to be by archaeologists.

Nazi archaeology, using cultural superiority of the ancient Aryan race as a basic assumption ) or a desire to prove a particular religious ( cf.

After the world viewed the Nazi death camps, many Western peoples began to outwardly oppose ideas of racial superiority.

His earlier writings did occasionally embrace popular ideas about racial superiority ; he clung to his prominent national positions during the Nazi period, and he took part in war propaganda, including the Berlin rally near the war's end.

This belief in the importance of German racial purity often served as the theoretical backbone of Nazi policies of racial superiority and later genocide.

He was not a member of the Nazi Party and – although proud of his German nationality – denied the Nazi claims of racial superiority: " I am a fighter, not a politician.

After a few minutes of waiting, Jones announced that they had been a part of an experiment in fascism and that they all willingly created a sense of superiority that German citizens had in the period of Nazi Germany.

The next few years saw Grand Prix racing become a metaphor for war, as the Nazi government of Germany chose this arena to prove their inherent superiority, nationalized the Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union racing teams, and ran them like a military campaign.

The Million Franc Race, or ‘ Prix du Million ’, was an effort in 1937 by the French Popular Front to induce French automobile manufacturers to develop race cars capable of competing with the incredibly advanced German Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union racers of the time, which were backed by the Nazi government in a ( largely successful ) attempt to dominate the sport, in order to ' prove the superiority of the Aryan race '.

Richard Barsam writes the film's " essential contrast is between myths and stereotypes of Jews and the Nazi ideal of a " master race ," between the alleged inferiority of the Jews and the superiority of the Germans.

In 1941 Yugoslavia was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany, and in the German occupied Banat the Swabian minority was granted a status of superiority over the other ethnic groups in the Yugoslav population.