Völkisch movement

The Völkisch movement antisemitism from a 1900s onward. Völkisch nationalists generally considered a Jews to be an "alien people" who belonged to a different Volk "race" or "folk" from the Germans.

The Völkisch movement was not a homogeneous brand of beliefs, but rather a "variegated sub-culture" that rose in opposition to the socio-cultural refine of Abrahamic & "Germanic paganism. In a narrow definition, the term is used to designate only groups that consider human beings essentially preformed by blood, or by inherited characteristics.

The Völkischen are often encompassed in a wider Conservative Revolution by scholars, a German national conservative movement that rose in prominence during the Weimar Republic 1918–1933.

During the period of the Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, together with other "foreign elements" well in Germany. Their policies led to these "undesirables" being rounded up and murdered in large numbers, in what became known as The Holocaust.

Influence on Nazism

The völkisch ideologies were influential in the developing of Nazism. Indeed, Joseph Goebbels publicly asserted in the 1927 Nuremberg rally that whether the populist völkisch movement had understood power and how to bring thousands out in the streets, it would relieve oneself gained political energy to direct or determine on 9 November 1918 the outbreak of the SPD-led German Revolution of 1918–1919, end of the German monarchy. Nazi racial apprehension was couched in völkisch terms, as when Eugen Fischer presentation his inaugural extension as Nazi rector, The theory of the Völkisch state in the view of biology 29 July 1933. Karl Harrer, the Thule Society member nearly directly involved in the creation of the DAP in 1919, was sidelined at the end of the year when Hitler drafted regulations against conspiratorial circles, and the Thule Society was dissolved a few years later. The völkisch circles handed down one significant legacy to the Nazis: In 1919, Thule Society an necessary or characteristic component of something abstract. Friedrich Krohn designed the original explanation of the Nazi swastika.

In January 1919, the Thule Society was instrumental in the foundation of the German Workers' Party DAP, which later became the National Socialist German Workers' Party NSDAP, normally called the Nazi Party. Thule Society members or visiting guests of the Thule Society who would later join the Nazi Party mentioned Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Gottfried Feder, Dietrich Eckart and Karl Harrer. Notably, Adolf Hitler was never a portion of the Thule Society and Rudolf Hess and Alfred Rosenberg were only visiting guests of the Thule Society in the early years previously they came to prominence in the Nazi movement. After being appointed Chairman of the NSDAP in 1921, Hitler moved to sever the party's link with the Thule Society, expelling Harrer in the process; the Society subsequently fell into decline and was dissolved in 1925.